...when that is the day most people travel, assuming they don't get Wednesday off. So Thursday is busy with travel and rush-rush-rush, meaning the actual family celebration would be on Friday, so they miss the football games.
And in Canada, Thanksgiving is on the 2nd Monday of October, which is the last day of our long weekend. So often up here the actual family dinner is on Sunday and Monday is spent returning from the visit.
I say US Thanksgiving should be on the Friday and Thursday can be free for travel and in Canada, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving should also be a holiday, to allow for families to celebrate on Monday and then travel back on Tuesday. Plus shorter weeks after a long weekend make the sting of going back to work a lot less.
What do you all think?
2007-11-22 01:37:22 · 5 answers · asked by Bill W 【ツ】 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
Actually, given that Americans take fewer vacation-days that almost any other industrial nation, I think we need the extra time. I DO get amused at all the rush-rush travel though.
WHY Thursday ?? Tradition: President George Washington issued a national Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. He wrote, "Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being..." This continued until 1815, but was revived by President Lincoln who proclaimed the last Thursday in November a "prayerful day of Thanksgiving."
Since then every U.S. President has always made an official Thanksgiving Proclamation on behalf of the nation.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941). It has henceforth been a FEDERAL HOLIDAY.
Washington set it as THURSDAY, and I'm not going to end a 218 year tradition for the sake of TRAVELLERS.
2007-11-22 01:52:09 · answer #1 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer likely to respond to for all human beings yet in my kin we cook dinner a huge turkey w/ all the fixings: dressing, potatoes & gravy, corn, cakes, and so on. the comprehensive kin is over one domicile and the adult males regularly sit down in front of the television and watch soccer. that's an afternoon for us to be grateful we are at the same time and have relaxing. generally we post our x-mas decorations the day after thanksgiving. This twelve months thanksgiving is on the twenty 2d - consistently the 4th Thursday in November
2016-11-12 09:51:22 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
True, Thanksgiving does not have to be on
Thursday. Friday would be good. However,
these Americans on Wednesday begin to
leave work early so they can get an early
start. Some leave work so early they don't
bother to take their hats off. So it does work
out pretty well. But Friday is good. I'll see
what I can do about it.
2007-11-22 06:11:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we have it on thursday, so we can call in sick on wednesday and get friday off too. A five day weekend gets my holiday season off to a good start every year!
2007-11-22 05:14:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doesnt bother me....I could care less about football....nothing more boring to me then a football game
2007-11-22 01:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋