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LEI US GIVE THRI1KS
Tomorrow we celebrate the American holiday that has been set a
ide as a day of thanks in our homes for over 300 years. It is a
ay that we all look forward to as a holiday, and for most of us a
ime of home-coming, although too often we have forgotten the spir
it of thanks which was in the beginning the reason for Thanksgiv
ing.
Perhaps it is as well that we in Seldovia and in Alaska come
this year to the holiday without a good many of the traditional
foods which have come to be synonymous with Thanksgiving. Perhaps
this year was meant to be ' a bit barer of the material, in order that
we may truly appreciate the things which make it-a- day of thanks.
This year Alaska‘has peace..or . Thanksgiving day. There is wa
rmth, comfort and enough to eat in our homes on this Nov. 28, 1946.
In many homes young men and women.who have been away-at war for the
past few Thanksgivings- will- be back this year. And in the homes
where young men and women will never be bt;ck, the hurt is eased a
bit by the thought that the time of dying for our youth 4s ove** and
the, time for living is ahead.
Truly there is much in living ‘this year for which we may give
thanks tomorrow, as-'well as in the days and weeks ahead of us.