Happy Thanksgiving to all my Internet friends, I hope you don't mind, but I thought I pass along a bit of history about Thanksgiving Day. While we all know about the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving, many may not know when it became a National Holiday. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November a National Day of Thanksgiving. Union Army cooks prepared 120,000 turkeys and chicken dinners to be served to Union troops in the trenches at Petersburg. Only a short distance away, Confederate soldiers had little to nothing, yet they showed respect by not firing a shot that day. At Andersonville Prison, soldiers of the Union Army were slowly starving to death and dying. And so began our first National Day of Thanksgiving. Source: "The Civil War", An Illustrated History By Geoffrey C. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns. This Thanksgiving Day, let us all remember to give thanks to our ancestors who fought and suffered in so many wars. I am so proud to be descended from such noble and strong individuals. Judy Clark-Wick JWick@compuserve.com