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Baitball Blogger

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3. I've heard so many theories about the origin of Thanksgiving.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Nov 5, 2021, 08:19 AM

Nov 2021

One person told me that the Pilgrims were in the midst of their own celebration, shooting off guns, and the Indians invited themselves to dinner.

A few years later, Thanksgiving became a time to give Thanks, and had little to do with Pilgrims or Indians.

Never knew if these two things were connected, but, it is a time for families to get together, and that's a good thing. Everything else is just noise.

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