“It Seems Thanksgiving Day Is Upon Us.”

If you know me, it will come as no surprise that I’m a Peanuts guy.

If you know me a little better, it will come as no surprise that I’m a Linus guy.

SALLY: What’s the matter, big brother?

CHARLIE: Nothing. I was just checking the mail box.

SALLY: What did you expect? A turkey card?

CHARLIE: Holidays always depress me.

SALLY: I know what you mean. I went down to buy a turkey tree… and all they have… are things for Christmas.

CHARLIE: For Christmas? Already?

SALLY: Anyway, why should I give thanks on Thanksgiving? What have I got to be thankful for? All it does is make more work for us at school. Do you know what we have to do now? We have to write an essay on Stanley Miles.

CHARLIE: You mean Miles Standish.

SALLY: I can’t keep track of all those people.

LINUS: What’s all the commotion?

CHARLIE: We’ve got another holiday to worry about. It seems Thanksgiving Day is upon us.

SALLY: I haven’t even finished eating all my Halloween candy!

LINUS: Sally, Thanksgiving is a very important holiday. Ours was the first country in the world to make a national holiday to give thanks.

SALLY: Isn’t he the cutest thing?

LINUS: What are you gonna do on Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown?

CHARLIE: My mother and dad and Sally and I are all going over to my grandmother’s for dinner.

SALLY: Why don’t you come along, Linus? We could hold hands under the table.

[YELLS]

PATTY: Before we’re served, shouldn’t we say grace?

LINUS: In the year 1621, the pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit who brought 90 of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this:

“We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice. “

PATTY: Amen.