For which I'm thankful:
I give thanks for my wonderful family, my bride Jeanne and son Chris at the very top of the list, good friends, including colleagues over many years in a number of locations, and the opportunity to work and make a living in journalism, which I love.
We give thanks for our nation, which has triumphed over so many daunting challenges, including the Great Depression, recessions, disease, two World Wars, the Civil War and evil as embodied in modern terrorism and Adolph Hilter and Nazism.
There are also the many, smaller things that we take for granted in our country. Natural beauty, entertainment, such as music and films, technology, college and professional sports, great restaurants and the ability to take a vacation and travel now and then.
We're very fortunate that the experiment, known as America, has given us all so much. Perfect? Of course, not. But there's nowhere else on earth that works through its challenges so well, because of a system of laws and ideals ingeniously devised by the Founding Fathers and upheld by industrious people.
For these reasons and many more, we have reason to give a prayer of Thanksgiving each and every day our lives.
I give thanks for my wonderful family, my bride Jeanne and son Chris at the very top of the list, good friends, including colleagues over many years in a number of locations, and the opportunity to work and make a living in journalism, which I love.
We give thanks for our nation, which has triumphed over so many daunting challenges, including the Great Depression, recessions, disease, two World Wars, the Civil War and evil as embodied in modern terrorism and Adolph Hilter and Nazism.
There are also the many, smaller things that we take for granted in our country. Natural beauty, entertainment, such as music and films, technology, college and professional sports, great restaurants and the ability to take a vacation and travel now and then.
We're very fortunate that the experiment, known as America, has given us all so much. Perfect? Of course, not. But there's nowhere else on earth that works through its challenges so well, because of a system of laws and ideals ingeniously devised by the Founding Fathers and upheld by industrious people.
For these reasons and many more, we have reason to give a prayer of Thanksgiving each and every day our lives.
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