The Day Before Thanksgiving

Good morning,

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody.
Thanksgiving is a special and wonderful tradition for Americans. The problem begins with the understanding and the discipline to control ourselves to report the truth about our history rather than to rewrite it so to not offend someone.
History should be written as is...just the truth. No matter how it hurts or how much it pleases,
history should be told from a basis of fact. Its history as it happened, not as you want everyone to see it. We cannot keep rewriting ourselves so to please everybody on everything, life just doesn't work that way. We all learn and grow from understanding our past, not working to make it all comfortable.
Thanksgiving is a wonderful tradition but for those who were actually there...it was a time of extreme struggle and survival. The Pilgrims were a brave and desperate bunch...all clinging to hope for the next day. There were Indians who wanted to reach out for the sake of curiosity and there were Indians who were warring and violent. Most tribes were of the later, tribes who lived a life of conquering and killing, where destroying and dominating each other were part of generations of violence and tradition. Our history books want to tell us that the American Indian, in that day, were all peace loving, commune living. spiritual naturalist. But the truth in most of those cases were actually the complete opposite. One of a savage marauding lifestyle that showed no mercy to its captors. Settlers were on the edge of spreading out all over the world. They had the technology and power to impose their way of life in every corner of that world. That's the way it was. That's how it unfolded...for good or bad...it did. Instead of trying to rewrite the European settlers methods and intentions and the behavior of the American Indian, maybe we should all just simply read the truth, take a deep breath of its time and give thanks that we did. Because without those brave and adventurous souls who took that first step, today's technology and advancements in the world would not be. If we are on a beautiful planet that has a finite moment of survival...we must, as a people, continue to reach out and explore beyond that reach. We must look back and remember that tipping point in time when courage and curiosity ventured out beyond the safety of their known world and looked into the darkness of the future and said... yes!
I thank them for that.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving.
potey17