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Obama Phones It In
By Carole on Nov 27, 2009
President Obama enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving at the White House but he did take a break from his holiday to telephone ten US servicemen and women stationed in war zones to thank them for their service. The White House says Obama called two service members from each branch of the armed forces stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Arabian Gulf.(source) What a guy.
On This Thanksgiving Day, 2009
By Carole on Nov 26, 2009
The challenges our nation is currently facing make these words from our 40th president especially meaningful even more than a quarter century since he wrote them:
Two hundred years ago, the Congress of the United States issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation stating that it was "the indispensable duty of all nations" to offer both praise and supplication to God.
