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Happy Thanksgiving! WTP 11/25/24 Meeting Canceled
Mon, Nov 25
|Cary
To prepare and celebrate Thanksgiving, 11/28/24 WTP is NOT meeting on 11/25/24. President Lincoln, "a day which I desire to be observed by all my fellow-citizens, wherever they may then be, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and Ruler of the Universe."
Time & Location
Nov 25, 2024, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Cary, 800 Feinberg Ct, Cary, IL 60013, USA
About the event
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/proclamation-118-thanksgiving-day-1864
Proclamation 118—Thanksgiving Day, 1864
October 20, 1864
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps and our sailors on the rivers and seas with unusual health. He has largely augmented our free population by emancipation and by immigration, while He has opened to us new sources of wealth and has crowned the labor of our workingmen in every department of industry with abundant rewards. Moreover, He has been pleased to animate and inspire our minds and hearts with fortitude, courage, and…