Happy Thanksgiving

Even with the holiday their are still the faithful ham's that are activating our national parks. Today even though the bands were lousy I managed to get two more National Parks. One K4LPQ Leo was on the Appalachian Trail in Tn. Since the celebration of our National Parks birthday began I have started looking up every park I have talked to. I have taken out books and looked online. They are all beautiful and we have one near by. Fallen Timbers in Maumee Ohio is a National Park that is often mistaken for one of our Metro Parks as the Metro Parks  maintain    Fallen Timbers for the government. It was one of the largest battles against the Indians in history, tribes joined together and large units of military all battled it out there. It took some time to sink in but imagine no paved streets most were walking some on horse back traveling 100's of miles. The military setting up supply Forts along the way. I really didn't see what the Indians did but I believe they had the upper hand as they new how to survive and live off the land.
Another thing I learned was the real beginning of Thanksgiving, President Washington sort of started it as a replacement for the Harvest Celebrations and later President Lincoln made it an official Government holiday during the civil war as one small way to try and bring a divided nation together. Sort of what we are going through on a less violent scale but yet divided.

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