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Four hundred and one years ago, after being thrown off course in the Atlantic, the Mayflower made landfall at Cape Cod, far from where the crew hoped to settle
This is the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving in 1621. Pilgrims and natives together bonded over that first feast. There, America was invented. Today is a time of gratitude and a moment for America to consider the important lessons from our nation's origins.
These victims fleeing from religious persecution set out consciously to achieve what President Lincoln would later describe as government “of the people, by the people, for the people.”
This Thanksgiving let’s thank the Dutch, who gave refuge to the Pilgrims before they came to America, and who transmitted their own spirit of liberty to America.
Four centuries ago, 102 men, women and children set sail on the Mayflower, a Virginia Company merchant ship from England bound for the New World.