Ya,
with hard times, its difficult to think about how lucky we all are sometimes.

I'm thankful for:
A wife of 27 years that still puts up with me,
My oldest son is starting to get a clueat 23 and
my youngest is a joy to hang around because he sees things in such a positive light.
And, Like Overthehill said, thank you to our troops for allowing us to be thankful for anything!
AND, thank you to my wife for spending 2 days cooking a thanksgiving feast that she allows us to gorge ourselves then lets us unbutton our pants and watch football!!!!
I'm also thankfull for all our friends here on BN!

yes,yes i forgot to mention for being thankful for the troops past and present.

not to change the subject but has anyone been watching the history channel.
where they have been showing WWII in color hd i think any younger or older person should watch that and hear some of the stories and things that were endured in the past to keep us safe.


pud

What about the USA? I am thankful for living in the greatest country on Earth. Sure we might be in decline, but the USA is still the best thing to have come along in 2,000 years.

China may be the future land of economic prosperity, but as long as the commies remain in control, it will never be the Land of Opportunity. Where else can a minority, raised by a single mother or a poor lawyer from Illinois or even an environmentalist (Teddy Roosevelt) decades ahead of his time, ascend to the most powerful office in the world? This is our legacy. Not wealth or military might, but the most radical of ideas; that all men are created equal, and have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

well i'm not a college educated guy and not trying to start anything because this is about thanksgiving but i always thought the united states, military all were one.
lets go back to say around 1940 or so.where do you think we would be now if it wasn't for military might and things would have went the other way.do you think you would have all the writes you have today.
and also do you think this poor lawyer thats wasn't so poor worth a few millon be in office today.


pud

Pud,
You don't have to possess a college education to appreciate our own history. The poor Lawyer from Illinois that I am referring to is also the greatest Republican President of all time, Abraham Lincoln. He was never wealthy, nor did he have powerful connections when he began his political career.

my bad juancho misread and put the two together.i have seemed to heard so much about one lately and forgot about another.yes abraham lincoln was a great man, no doubt about that.


pud

Well Obhama was raised poor, that dont mean he now is. I think our strength has less to do with might and more to do with our pride and resolve. I can remember tails of a country with no milatary might and a country in a recession. When our Pres and fellow country man not only built and supplied the allies, but our own country. Put masses back to work. Built many planes, boats, and guns. And then what did we do....

We saved the world.

Sure we had help. Most of which had already given up on winning. When America makes up her mind, we come through.

When Japan bombed perl harbor their comander said he feared they had done nothing more than awaken a sleeping giant. A giant that seemed a sissy cause we wanted nothing to do with their war.

We saved the world. Thank God for the USA

Man…I really didn’t mean to get us so off topic. My point was that we lived in the best country on Earth. And all the other things that I am thankful for, (wife, family, friends, job, education) I owe to the simple fact that I was lucky enough to be born here.

It is obvious a lot of people from this forum are watching WWII in HD on the History. I have been a lifelong history buff. The History Chanel is definitely one of my favorites, but I would caution you all to understand the motive behind much of their programming is to entertain not educate. This is the same channel that loves to show “documentaries” about UFO’s after all.

With that, I would just like to say, do not overestimate our role in the European theater during WWII. Our war was with Japan. The war in Europe was over in 1940 when Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union. Germany’s fate was sealed at Stalingrad when they lost an entire army (over 250,000 soldiers). There is no question the Soviets would have defeated Germany with or without our help.

For our part, we were the world’s largest arms dealer. We single handedly defeated an equally tough, and arguably more fanatical foe in what was certainly, a far more challenging theater of battle. Thank god for the A-bomb, because without it, the Japanese mainland would have been our very own Stalingrad times 10. Sure we would have won in the end, but at the cost of at least half a million American casualties and countless millions of Japanese. Read about the battle of Okinawa to get a sense of what it would have been like.

You are correct. But were it not for us, things would have turned out much diffrent in both world wars. Weather your talking arms or man power. Besides the Germans may have started the dirty diaper but they were but one foe. Were it not for us supplying the arms, the war would have ended much sooner. And not in a positive way.

I'm not one that feels we are the end all be all with our milatary. I do believe however that we are a people that comes together when we absolutly need to. We do what ever we have to regardless of the odds. We find a way to pervail as long as our govt lets us.

When a town floods or burns down, we fix it. Even when it's not our's. We come across as a bunch of rich lazy folks to much of the world. But we have a way of over coming the worst.

To me this is the best place in the world. Even in our worst times, this is the best place.

God bless the USA