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Thu Nov 23 15:47:36 GMT 2006

The address that set forth the Thanksgiving Holiday as a national
holiday in the US;  I am not even close to being what one would call PC,
but just the same, this is not meant to offend the agnostics and
atheists, but sent for your consideration:

It is the duty of nations as well as of men to owe their dependence
upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and
transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine
repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime
truth,  announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, 
that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.  We know that by
his divine law,  nations,  like individuals,  are subject to punishments
and chastisements in this world.  May we not justly fear that the awful
calamity of civil war which now desolates the land may be a punishment
inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins; to the needful end of our
national reformation as a whole people?

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have
been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown
in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown.

But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which
preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, 
and we have vainly imagined,  in the deceitfulness of our hearts,  that
all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of
our own.

Intoxicated with unbroken success we have become too self-sufficient to
feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray
to the God that made us.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly,
reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one
voice, by the whole of the American people. I do therefore invite my
fellow citizens in every pad of the United States, and also those who
are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart
and observe the last Thursday of November as a day of Thanksgiving and
praise to our beneficent  Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

  -President Abraham Lincoln
  16th president of the USA

>>> "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org> 11/22/2006 12:26 PM >>>
I hesitate to send this, as it is as inherently political as it is
informative.  

Foremost, I hope that we'll simply keep our colleagues and their
patients in our thoughts and prayers.  Americans celebrating their
Thanksgiving holiday might further reflect on our good fortune, and
the
ramifications of our global stewardship.

Shortcut to:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061122/ap_on_he_me/iraq_s_doctors_1 

All best,

Pret Bjorn, RN
Bangor, Maine USA

 <<iraq_s_doctors_1.url>> 

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