Happy Thanksgiving: Calendars are funny and the internet...
"Franklin Roosevelt observed Thanksgiving on the second to last Thursday of November for two more years, but the amount of public outrage prompted Congress to pass a law on December 26, 1941, ensuring that all Americans would celebrate a unified Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November every year."
Thanksgiving can fall on any date from November 22 to November 28. For those who use Thanksgiving or other dates around this time of year as a marker, this can make things very confusing. This year, 2006, Thanksgiving falls the day after the 44th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitgerald Kennedy.
Everybody that is alive and aware on such a memorable occassion knows EXACTLY where they were on the day of an event that has a universal impact and the events in their lives on the surrounding dates. I was 13 on November 22nd, 1963 and was caught smoking in the boys room with Greg Krochmal. The 22nd of November, in 1963, was a Friday. The 28th of November was Thanksgiving.
With all the above in mind, using the power of the internet, I am going to try to contact Greg Krochmal to see if he remembers me and if I am as much a part of his stories as he is mine..
I, like many others, am surprised Thanksgiving is already here. It is early... After all, it is only one day off from the earliest it can be. Next year, 2007, Thanksgiving falls on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.
I don't dwell on the assination of JFK nor am I obsessed by the assassination of JFK. For those who felt the impact of the event, Thanksgiving is as much a time of reflection as it is a time of giving thanks... I give thanks that I was a merely a 13 year old that felt deprived of bragging rights of having been caught smoking (no-one cared) rather than being the hopeful generation that felt devestated by the event.
"Franklin Roosevelt observed Thanksgiving on the second to last Thursday of November for two more years, but the amount of public outrage prompted Congress to pass a law on December 26, 1941, ensuring that all Americans would celebrate a unified Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November every year."
Thanksgiving can fall on any date from November 22 to November 28. For those who use Thanksgiving or other dates around this time of year as a marker, this can make things very confusing. This year, 2006, Thanksgiving falls the day after the 44th anniversary of the assassination of John Fitgerald Kennedy.
Everybody that is alive and aware on such a memorable occassion knows EXACTLY where they were on the day of an event that has a universal impact and the events in their lives on the surrounding dates. I was 13 on November 22nd, 1963 and was caught smoking in the boys room with Greg Krochmal. The 22nd of November, in 1963, was a Friday. The 28th of November was Thanksgiving.
With all the above in mind, using the power of the internet, I am going to try to contact Greg Krochmal to see if he remembers me and if I am as much a part of his stories as he is mine..
I, like many others, am surprised Thanksgiving is already here. It is early... After all, it is only one day off from the earliest it can be. Next year, 2007, Thanksgiving falls on the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK.
I don't dwell on the assination of JFK nor am I obsessed by the assassination of JFK. For those who felt the impact of the event, Thanksgiving is as much a time of reflection as it is a time of giving thanks... I give thanks that I was a merely a 13 year old that felt deprived of bragging rights of having been caught smoking (no-one cared) rather than being the hopeful generation that felt devestated by the event.
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