My Take — 06

Thanksgiving is an American Holiday

The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, oil on canvas 1914. Jennie Brownscombe

It should be an International Day of Remembrance

A day to think about what was lost.

Thanksgiving is a quintessential American holiday. Like the Fourth of July it is unique to America. Like the Fourth of July, it is built on a pastiche of fact, fantasy, historical revisionism, and a complete…