Happy Thanksgiving from Silicon Valley

To fellow American dwellers,

This year, I am especially thankful for all the friends all around the world. It is a time to give thanks for all that we have, and for all the people who have touched our lives.
Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Champagne anyone?
Angelique et all.








Được sửa chữa bởi - milou on 25/11/2001 00:57

Silicon Valley nghe quen quen ma khong nho o tieu bang nao?To chi biet Mission Valley va Fashion Valley thoi.

Silicon valley thuộc tiểu bang CA (CAlifornia).Đây cũng là cái nôi của Microsoft.Nếu tính về phương bắc thì đã qua khỏi sân bay của Los Angeless.Gần với Sacramento (thủ phủ của CA )
To Angelique : I'd like give thanks to any one too!But for some Accident to my PC ,then i couldn't send to you guy the Happy Thanks Giving Electronic Cards.I'm so sorry for the delay.
Happy Thanks Giviving to you guy!

Never say "you guy" to a person. "You guys" is OK when addressing to a group of intimate friends, not OK to someone you know casually as HRH who is not even a "guy."

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I'm moving this to English

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yep ! u guys ! Not U guy !
Sis Angelique : I thought that the Thanksgiving festial is for the Americans . It means that I should have holiday during this fes coz im studying in an American school.But actualy , we didnt have any holiday for this festival.Its so unfair!!!!hic hic ! U know, my friend who is in US told me that he got 2 weeks for holiday. hic hic ! Do u also have a long break like him ?And actually, I dont know what is it !( I mean Thanksgiving fes )
BN
When u receive a kindness; remember it, when u do a kindnes, forget it.

Thanks Milou for the correction, errors are always instructive. In my opinion, strong members, especially those living in the US (Milou, Despi, Angelique, Nha Que,...), should feel free to correct mistakes of others, which is a better way for the weaker ones like me to learn English than just reading sophisticated texts. I am very happy to have my mistakes corrected by you.
It seems to me that this club is not very crowded, despite the importance of this most international language, English.

me either ! That might be good for us especially for me ( who is bad in English)Thanks for ur corrections! I hope i can be like u !
BN
When u receive a kindness; remember it, when u do a kindnes, forget it.

In 1621, after a hard and devastating first year in the New World the Pilgrim's fall harvest was very successful and plentiful. There was corn, fruits, vegetables, along with fish which was packed in salt, and meat that was smoke cured over fires. They found they had enough food to put away for the winter.
The Pilgrims had beaten the odds. They built homes in the wilderness, they raised enough crops to keep them alive during the long coming winter, and they were at peace with their Indian neighbors. Their Governor, William Bradford, proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that was to be shared by all the colonists and the neighboring Native American Indians.
The custom of an annually celebrated thanksgiving, held after the harvest, continued through the years. During the American Revolution (late 1770's) a day of national thanksgiving was suggested by the Continental Congress.
In 1817 New York State adopted Thanksgiving Day as an annual custom. By the middle of the 19th century many other states also celebrated a Thanksgiving Day. In 1863 President Abraham Lincoln appointed a national day of thanksgiving. Since then each president has issued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, usually designating the fourth Thursday of each November as the holiday.

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Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part 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 next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln

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