From the wiki: Italicized words my addition. Thanksgiving has been celebrated nationally on and off since 1789 after Congress requested a proclamation by George Washington.It has been celebrated as a federal holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (Abe L.) proclaimed a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens,” to be celebrated on the last Thursday in November. The event that Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving” was celebrated by the Pilgrims after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621. This feast lasted three days, and—as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow—it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims. –end Wiki G-d has given us a picture of what heaven is like by blessing us with the last city on the hill,  Norman Rockwell painted our America the last great nation to… Read moreHappy Thanksgiving – There is Much to be Thankful For, Here is one Jesus is coming Back.