Thursday, November 24, 2011

Thanksgiving in America

George Washington declared November 26 a day of public thanksgiving. This photo is from around 1910.

Americans consume 46 million turkeys every holiday season. The president gave a pardon to two grateful turkeys on the Whitehouse  lawn.

Last year Julia botello 84 are her turkey dinner on the steps of the bank which evicted her  from her home. Sign of the times we live in.

Black Friday shoppers looking for bargains


Macy's Department store

 
President Obama and his mother-in-law distribute food to the needy.

 
Bill Clinton in 1992 with homeless kids from a shelter in Little Rock Arkansas


Churches feed poor and homeless people

 
During the Great Depression Social Services handed out tons of food. This is New York around 1930.

Thanksgiving in Afghanistan

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