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What are you thankful for?
I'm thankful for my children who are teaching me about unconditional love. I watch them enjoy their lives and their time with me in a special way. This makes me pause and give thanks for them and their wonderful laughter, smiles, and joy.
Gary Brown
browng@abraham.ccaa.edu
You asked what I was thankful for -- well, after the year from hell, I'm just glad I survived: my husband lost his job of many years at the hands of a new CEO in what we call a hostile takeover (after 11 long months, my husband finally got a new job yesterday); my father died extremely suddenly with an unusual heart stoppage; the city sewer backed up into our family room and ruined everything there (the city finally agreed to reimburse us after many months of a polluted, sewage-filled family room); we wrecked one of our cars; and finally, we helped my mom move twice in the last year. WHAT A YEAR! I hope all this is near its end. Yes, I'm just thankful I survived!
Jacquie Bond
jbond@ims-1.com
I'm thankful for the great family and friends that I have. The beautiful wife that I've been blessed with. The fact that no matter what and where we go things always turn out right. Being in the service the last 20 years gives me the right to say this is the greatest nation on Earth. And every American should count his blessings that he or she was born into such great fortune. God bless America and all that it has to offer to the rich and the poor.
Mark E. Rollier
rolliermark@sprintmail.com
Each day I remind myself that I am the luckiest man in the world. I have reached my 62nd birthday in reasonably good health. I am a diabetic and have been since I was 13 years old. I finished a teaching career of 34 years and retired at age 65. While not wealthy, I have enough money to adequately pay my few existing bills. As a biology teacher I have learned to love the world environment and continually try to protect it. My parents taught me at an early age how to be successful. I followed their advice and have had a life filled with happiness.
Norm Hefner
normandi@gte.net
On November 21, 1995, I underwent back surgery for three ruptured discs in my lower back. I vowed to return running and rehabilitate as quickly as possible. I am thankful that the surgery was a success and the subsequent recuperation has been excellent. Not only have I recovered from the surgery but I run in a 5K and a 10K road race since the surgery. I am thankful for the incredible healing powers of my body and the skill of the surgeon.
David Williams
dew1@soho.ios.com
Once, when I was a child, my father decided he was going to show us kids what Thanksgiving was like when he was a boy. No going to fancy supermarkets buying huge frozen turkeys for us - no sir - we were going to get the real thing. So he brought a live turkey home insisting that we were going to have it for Thanksgiving dinner. Well the turkey seemed pleased enough about that until he saw my father coming out of the tool shed with an axe. I guess the turkey must have thought he was invited to dinner, not for dinner, but when he saw the axe held so resolutely in my fathers' hand he realized that his time had come to an end. In fear for his life he began to run around the yard faster than anything I had ever seen. My parents and all of us kids began to chase him but never even came close to catching him. When the family dogs joined in the chase, we must have looked a sight indeed; two adults, six kids and two dogs running around and around after a gobbling turkey. One of the dogs got pretty close, but (just as he was getting ready to take a huge bite of turkey neck) that old turkey up and jumped the fence and ran down the road never to be seen again. My, were we tired and hungry after all that running. We went into the house and looked in the fridge for something to eat. The only thing there was a pack of hot dogs. That's how the weiner became the traditional Thanksgiving dinner in my family and still is.
Jim Moffett
twfc@nenpub.szptt.net.cn
I would like to thank CNN and all that support this link for doing a superb job of keeping us informed and up to date without interrupting every few seconds for commercials. I would also like to say that I feel very thankful for having a terrific, loving husband, a son of whom I am extraordinarily proud of and a beautiful granddaughter, all of whom are in good health and surviving quite nicely in our world.
Good Luck CNN and once again, THANKS!!!!!
Claire Bertollo
bert@nji.com
This Thanksgiving Day I am thankful for medical science and how they are able to do Heart by-pass operations. My mother had one and Mr. Yeltsin of Russia had one and lots of other people are having them and then leaving the hospital after two weeks to go home.
I also like Thanksgiving because I was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1948. This Thanksgiving I'll be 48. I used to watch you on cable TV but I traded my cable in for Internet. Now I read the news at your Web site.
John F. Stevens
KF6DRX@WEBTV.NET
Like many soldiers this year, I will be spending my Thanksgiving holiday far from home and family. This year I have been called on to do my duty in Bosnia and Croatia. While most Americans are home safe, warm and eating turkey, those of us on Operation Joint Endeavor will be keeping the peace in a land where many people still want to kill their neighbors. I often ask myself if it is worth it, but then I pull out a picture I took on my first day in Bosnia. The pic shows a 3-year-old boy, the same age as my own son, waving to me from in front of his war-torn house. If anything the U.S. Task Force has done has given this child one year of peace and happiness, then my stay here has been worth it and I can count my blessings this Thanksgiving Day. God bless us all and don't forget us.
CPT Rob Littman
g6dtacoi@pop1-email.5sigcmd.army.mil
I live in Asia, and it is admirable that you have set a special day for Thanksgiving. This often reminds me whenever US celebrate Thanksgiving, to give thanks for all the blessings we receive.
I appreciate your good tradition, as we all, one time or another had to gives thanks and share as God reminds us to do. May God Bless you all. Share.
Roy Kintia
roiking@cebu.weblinq.com
Just returning home from Bosnia in participation of Operation Joint Endeavor for the last 10 months, I am thankful for one very important thing, my family.
Being separated from my family for such along period of time made me realize how important my family is to me and how I had taken them for granted in the past. The Operation Joint Endeavor experience has been great for me personally as I now understand the importance of the family and the values associated with a strong family structure.
I worried a great deal about my family while I was in the then uncertain, potentially dangerous area. I though not of my own welfare, I didn't expect to come home, but only of my family. Every day I prayed my family would stay strong, safe, and healthy. My prayers were answered.
SSG William J. Parker
ac5dh@sirinet.net
US Army, Fort Sill, OK
Thanksgiving is a wonderful time in my family. It is a time of laughing and catching up. Every year we go around the table and tell what we are thankful for the year before. It is a blessing just to be home from college and know that home is the thing I am most thankful for!!!
Cathy Cummings
c-cum@cc.cumber.edu
What a wonderful idea you have in asking for our ideas about Thanksgiving!
My top thanks go to the many wonderful people ALL OVER THE WORLD who, via the Internet, have joined us with prayers and good wishes for the successful high-risk birth of our grandson, who is now here (as of November 7th), handsome and healthy.
I wish I could call all these "cyberspace" friends together,and let them know how their Internet presence has sustained a family who needed their support!
Perhaps you can do it for me!
Jo Gibilisco
jogib@millcomm.com
Mr. Tim Saddler's fifth-graders at Westwood Middle School in Danville, Virginia, are thankful for a beautiful new school. We are learning to word-process in the computer lab and are thankful for our new computers. We are also practicing research skills by using the Internet. We are thankful for our families and homes. We are thankful for our teachers because they listen to us. Our class used the CNN home page to research current events. Thank you for your services.
Mr. Tim Saddler
Miss Sharon Denny
Westwood Middle School
Danville, Virginia
westwood@ns.gamewood.net
I am so thankful for my health, my family ,and my God, for without Him I would have nothing. I saw recently on CNN that one person out of four lived in poverty around the world. I am so grateful to sit down with my family this Thanksgiving, and have all the food we can eat, have all the love we have for each other, and I so wish there would not be one person in this world go to bed hungry this Thanksgiving night. May all of us, who have plenty, share with those who may be less fortunate.
Bill Conner
wconn@ix.netcom.com
Thanksgiving is truly a day for personal, family, community, and national unity. It is the least commercialized holiday in America. Thanksgiving has a strength and gentleness that transcends our daily lives and reminds all of us how specially blessed we all are.
We are blessed to live in the United States of America, with the unlimited opportunities this country provides for all the people.
We are blessed to live in communities where neighbors care for each other. In areas where neighbors have forgotten each other, Thanksgiving provides a loving opportunity to rebuild lost relationships and remind communities what is truly important.
We are blessed to have families. Some with blood relatives, others with adopted relatives. The act of giving thanks and breaking bread together renews, restores, and refreshes our precious bonds. Every day we are reminded of the pitfalls of modern life. Thanksgiving gives families a chance to experience what is truly important.
We are blessed to be ourselves. Thanksgiving gives all of us a silent, peaceful opportunity to take stock in what is good in each one of us. It opens the door, once again, to find opportunity for loving recovery, inner peace and enlightenment. Thanksgiving reminds each individual to experience what is truly important.
Thanksgiving is our gateway to love, peace, and understanding for ourselves, our family, our neighbors, and our country. God Bless Thanksgiving.
Gerald Hugh de Heer
inward@hula.net
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