As we approach Thanksgiving Day this year, and we look forward to being with family and friends, to good food and good football, it might be a good time ask, not why we do this, but why we are able to do it.

How is it that we have so much to be thankful for as a people? It is all too easy to gripe and complain, but we really have it pretty good overall. Why is this the richest country there has ever been, while other nations with great resources stumble around in the dark?

I have couple of things for you to consider. First, the proclamation of George Washington in 1789…