I am very dis-satisfied with my memories relating to this day fifty years ago. I was six, so I guess I can be forgiven for my lack of political awareness. I can only remember not being able to watch Sky King or Roy Rogers because a casket was rolling down the street for what seemed like three weeks.
I read through the paper this morning and they featured a reprint of the front page from fifty years ago. The main thing that struck me about it was the size. After shrinking the old front page to fit the width of the contemporary format, they still had about a third of a page to fill the bottom with a current article. It reminded me again of how much smaller newspapers are today and to me, that smallness translates to quality.
No wonder the industry is in trouble!
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If I may, consider this: Thanksgiving is a secular holiday. Christmas is a religious holiday. Religiously speaking the Christmas season doesn't begin until Christmas Eve at the Vigil service. That said, no one escapes their culture, even religious people. But what is the religious season immediately preceding Christmas? Right you are! It's Advent. So, I believe, as a kind of compromise, with the convenient commercial and secular marker of Thanksgiving as the beginning of the Christmas season (I say compromise because I concede that we cannot NOT celebrate Christmas until Christmas Eve) we should consider the Feast Day of Christ the King, which marks the end of the Church calendar, as the earliest possible go button. Advent is a period beginning with the Sunday nearest to the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle (30 November) and embraces four Sundays." That means that the First Sunday of Advent can fall as early as November 27 or as late as December 3. Not that this is going to change anything for on your marks, get set, go Walmart shoppers (don't get in their way!!!) but the rest of us should think as Christians before we think as Americans with respect to Christmas. With respect to Thanksgiving, it makes sense to me think as an American and a Christian together. After all, we are a Christian nation, despite 0's claims to the contrary. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with painting an easter egg on a window on Halloween provided the money's right -as long as it's not a pornographic Easter egg, or a pink one. Pink offends me.
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