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Honoring President Ford

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Torchbearer for Thanksgiving

President Gerald Ford is the 20th century torchbearer of our great national tradition of Thanksgiving.

• George Washington initiated thanksgiving at the birth of our country
• Abraham Lincoln brought gratitude back during the darkest days of the Civil War to unify our country
• Gerald Ford gave thanksgiving and gratitude new impetus as he achieved healing for our wounded nation, following the divisiveness and turmoil of the sixties and early seventies. In fact, he demonstrated the highest and finest quality of thankfulness for human beings – forgiveness.

Signing Proclamation of Thanksgiving, White House, 1974

It goes very simply: We are the children of one Creator, therefore we are brothers and sisters. As humans, we all make mistakes. Gerald Ford was incredibly aware of that. And knowing that, he also understood that brothers and sisters forgive each other’s mistakes.

If you recall a person who applied this value twenty years later, remember Archbishop Tutu and the Truth Commission in South Africa. He received the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Ford is barely remembered and yet he deserves so much more. Our future as a true Thanks-Giving Square reflects through this remarkable and underestimated man.

President Ford celebrates Thanksgiving Proclamation at Thanks-Giving Square, 1976

Children prepare to ring the Liberty Bell (replica) 1976 (U.S. 200th Anniversary)

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Our 2009 Expressions Competition winning and runner up entries will be exhibited at the Square starting Friday, November 20

Come see them! Bring your guests, your children, your grandchildren!

See Thanksgiving through the eyes of students K through 12

More than a hundred schools participated, with our new national competition bringing in entries from several states and even a American School outside of the States

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Parliament of the World's Religions

Three Ambassadors from Dallas will attend the Parliament of the World's Religions, December 3-9, 2009, in Melbourne, Australia.
• Ms. Tatiana Androsov,
President and Executive Director of Thanks-Giving Square
• Rev. Bill Matthews,
Chairman of the Interfaith Council of Thanks-Giving Square
• Mrs. Norma Matthews,
Dallas Chapter, United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
Dr. Harbans Lal

The heart of all faiths and cultures converge on thanksgiving and gratitude, represented by the Glory Window in our Thanks-Giving Square Chapel

2008 Arts Winners, ThanksGiving
Square

Immanuel Dawson 1st Place, Grades 9-12
Life Charter Academy, Dallas

Adrian Santiesteban (k-3)
Vivian Fowler Elementary School in the Mt. Pleasant ISD

2008 Written Word Winner
(4th-5th grade)

Home Again

Mykayla Fontaine from
Hudson PEP Elementary from the Longview ISD. Her teacher was Denise Frederick

2008 Written Word Winner
(6th-7th grade)

Safe Again

Erin Taylor from
Holy Trinity Catholic,
Diocese of Dallas.
His teacher was Linda Watts.

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Thursday is for
Thanks . . .

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to the
Thanksgiving Theme
composed by

Jonathan David