Patriot,

On this Thanksgiving afternoon, I want to wish you and your
family the very best.

I’m thankful for your support. I cannot say that enough.

In the world of politics, it’s too easy to get caught up on the
differences we have with others . . . from our neighbors and
friends, to our family members.

Taking a step back to fully see what we have to be thankful for
in our nation, despite our differences, is paramount to civility.

Giving thanks is a process that places our prosperity, our
health, our family and our faith at the forefront. It’s a day
long commitment to appreciating the positivity in life – no
matter how dire our situation.

There’s no better example of this than a simple act by one of
our nation’s presidents.

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln made
Thanksgiving an official, national holiday.

Think about that for a moment. During America’s most trying
time, the President of the United States asked that one day a
year, we set aside our differences and express gratitude for each
other and the prosperity granted by God.

Here is President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation, and I
hope you have a chance to give it a read and share it during this
holiday:

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with
the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these
bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to
forget the source from which they come, others have been added,
which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to
penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually
insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In
the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity,
which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to
provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all
nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected
and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the
theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly
contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of
peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the
plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the
borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and
coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly
than heretofore. Population has steadily increased,
notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the
siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the
consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to
expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom. No
human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out
these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High
God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath
nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly,
reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and
voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my
fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also
those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign
lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November
next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent
Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that
while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such
singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble
penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend
to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans,
mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we
are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition
of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to
restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes
to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the
seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three,
and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."

Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863.
Thank you again for all that you do and Happy Thanksgiving to you
and yours.

Respectfully,

Laura Loomer

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