Americans to Celebrate Thanksgiving Day On Nov.25

On the 25th of November, many families throughout the US will celebrate Thanksgiving Day, which is immensely significant in the history of Americans.

Every year, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. This special occasion, which marks the beginning of the holidays season, is cited as one of the most sacred and cultural holidays in the American territory.

The day also commemorates the “first” Thanksgivings in America, in 1619 in Virginia, and in 1621, when colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts, later known as the Pilgrims, shared a massive meal with the Wampanoag Indians, who were native to the land.

After a while, the feast was held in honor of the help the Pilgrims received from the Native Americans in cultivating crops and surviving their first harsh winter and it lasted three days.

On this date every year, American families celebrate this special day by coming together and by thanking God for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year.

As a tradition, the Americans hold a massive dinner banquet to celebrate the holidays together with their Kins and friends.

For the majority of Americans, the Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and sweet pumpkin pie.

They also take this occasion to confer words of praise upon their predecessors for bringing them the prosperity that they are enjoying today. In addition to this, they write down what they are thankful for and then read aloud from the pieces of paper.

During some Thanksgiving celebrations, some American schools also take this occasion as momentum in organizing special events for students to participate in classroom activities that focus on the topic of peace, and thankfulness.

The students learn about the holiday by coloring in pictures of Pilgrims and turkeys and the Mayflower, the ship the colonists arrived on.

It's noteworthy to mention that George Washington declared the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America marking November 26, 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God."