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month, Lincoln, Hale and the American people across the Union celebrated Thanksgiving Day. Since then, Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November with the exception of 1939 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the celebration to the third Thursday of November to lengthen the Depression era Christmas holiday shopping season. The American people did not like this change, and by 1941 Roosevelt
reluctantly signed a bill returning Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday. So as you pause in thanks this year, remember those who came before to make this day a special American holiday. It was the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians who first gathered, but it was the unrelenting efforts of Sarah Josepha Hale and the proclamation of Abraham Lincoln that engenders us each fourth Thursday of November to celebrate America’s Thanksgiving Day. io
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