and while you are enjoying (or not) the company of family and friends.
Please, do these two things for me:
Take a moment and reflect on why we have this holiday. Appreciate the fact that we are so rich…so wealthy…that we have such a holiday, where the abundance in our lives lets us eat and have a celebration of thanks for all that is good in them.
And take a moment, and think of a serviceman away from his family, out on a post somewhere, his very presence on that post helping to protect that life I discussed in the paragraph above this one. Remember him or her. Perhaps they got a turkey dinner at a mess hall on land or on a ship , or perhaps they got MRE’s on the line or on patrol.
Either way, they ain’t where they’d prefer to be. But they are there. Say thanks for them, as well.
Having been one, I do every year! God Bless them!