What's The Story Behind Thanksgiving Day?

Philippines
August 25, 2010 2:06pm CST
Sorry for my ignorance but what is the story behind the holiday called thanksgiving? I mean how did it all start. If I am right is celebrated every November right? What I know about is that on this day the most essential dish on the dinner table is the turkey...how did it all start too? Could you please shed some light? We do not celebrate thanksgiving here in my country.
4 responses
@itachi12 (69)
• United States
25 Aug 10
well its not a story that most people like to hear but its really cut and dry lits much like this we are given thanks to the deception of the native Americans and pertending to like them then a cupal of years ofter the deener killing them for their land because Americans believed in dramatic destiny witch was the right to rule all of America sea to sea .
• United States
25 Aug 10
after learned it from us history class school
@stealthy (8181)
• United States
25 Aug 10
You must have gone to a left wing socialist endoctrinating school. And judging by your grammer, etc. not a very good one.
• United States
28 Aug 10
to chaye
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
27 Aug 10
Thanksgiving is the holiday that is celebrated to give thanks for the harvest of the year. It started shortly after the first Pilgrims arrived in the new world. In the first several months that the pilgrims were here there were many fatalities and a lot of difficulties from adapting to their new environment. This holiday is to celebrate the fact that they were able to overcome the adversity that they faced and that they were able to survive.
• Philippines
27 Aug 10
Pilgrims from where Doran? Were they the Puritans?
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
25 Aug 10
here in canada, we also celebrate thanksgiving. ours is in october and this is when we give thanks for the bountiful harvest.
• Philippines
26 Aug 10
I think Thanksgiving Day was first celebrated by the pilgrims; the first immigrants from Europe who survived the harsh winter of North America. Whatever food or produce they had, they offered it thanking the Lord for safety, health and abundance.