Q: Could someone please explain to me what Thanksgiving is please..:) To me it seems alot like christmas. thanks for reading :) also forgot to ask, do you have Turkey and all the trimmings for thanksgiving and christmas???? thanks for answering :) HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL AMERICANS !!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) HOME AND ABROAD :) XX
A: On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a formal proclamation, passed by an Act of Congress, initiating the first annual National Day of Thanksgiving: "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... I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and those who are sojourning in the 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....[it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blesses whose God is the Lord....It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledge, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people." -America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations LOL, concerning food, Thanksgiving is usually celebrated with turkey, etc. Christmas food traditionally tends to be ham. Also, many families cook a pie (or two) for Thanksgiving (most often pumpkin pie), whereas Christmas is celebrated with an assortment of sweets.