WHAT DOES IT MEAN
TO YOU ...
OUR DAY OF THANKSGIVING IN THIS WAR-TORN 1943 WORLD
||\ emember the singing happiness of waking up of a frosly
meriting when you were v?ry young and sniffing the good smells
of turkey and all the fixings drifting up from the kitchen? Even
then you fensed a difference between that day and other "turkey
for dinner" days. You learned that all over our land the day of
Thanksgiving was bringing Americans near to each other and
to the ideals and traditions of 'he generations since our Pilgrim
fathers. A wonderful thought .to hold close and warm in your
heart—inspiring then and through each succeeding year.
Wherever they are this year, our boys in service will remember
nil the thing? that make i'o an American Thanksgiving. These
are the ich'alf. that they are fight'ng to preserve . . . these are
the traditions you and all of us here at home are privileged to
keep alive and untarnished through unsettled wartime years.
You'll observe the day with a '.ruly thankful heart despite the
empty places at your table ... if you'll remember that it would1
be far fur worse to live a life « mpty of the American ways that
we believe worth fighting for!