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New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Freedom<\/span><\/p>\n

It was October 1863, just after the Battle of Gettysburg, when Mr. Lincoln declared a national \u201cday of Thanksgiving\u201d to celebrate the Union\u2019s victories in the Civil War. His proclamation said it was \u201cfit and proper\u201d that the country should give thanks for success in a war that would eventually mean \u201ca large increase of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timing of the first Thanksgiving is important. Earlier in the year, Mr. Lincoln\u2019s Emancipation Proclamation had turned the Civil War into a battle against slavery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The New York Times this morning brought back memories of my Fourth Grade school year, and the science teacher who introduced to us the concepts both that the American Civil War had not been fought „to free the slaves“ as well as that students were so trained to believe something they might not easily register or remember an alternative point they were offered. This was an era of M\u1ef9 Lai, the Chicago police riot, the trial of the Chicago Eight\/Seven<\/span>, the „secret“ invasion of Cambodia, Kent State.<\/p>\n