Firstly, I would like to offer my thanks for all who left kind comments during my absence yesterday, and to hope that you all had a good Thanksgiving, preferably in the bosoms of you families. Although, as an Englishman, I do not celebrate this festival, my thoughts at that time were with my many American friends – Christians and non-believers alike – and I believe that we should all give thanks for our manifold blessings. I was fourteen years old at the end of the greatest, and most savage war... Sign in to see full entry.