The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida (2024)

November 22, 2001

Publication:

The Miami Heraldi

Location:

Miami, Florida

Issue Date:

Thursday, November 22, 2001

Page:

69

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wrvv The Herald 5C THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22 2001 Appreciation of life key to holiday Get complete coverage of the South Florida business scene in BUSINESS MONDAY mm bp could broke bread together and gave thanks for what they had They understood what had the luxury of forgetting That history end The valley is just a prelude to the mountain And there is rea son to be thankful for both Leonard Pitts column runs in Living Arts every Thursday and Saturday Call him toll-free at 888-251-4407 leonardpittsmindspr- ingcom tal order your faith in its essential predictability Not things that threatened the existence or the continuity of its government Not things that made you feel vulnerable If someone had told you Sept 10 that you were living in the good old days you would never have believed it But that was precisely true We had seized destiny by the throat imposed order on chaos so that everything a body needed to know do have be was as close and portable as a Palm Pilot News media that once reported war and nuclear menace now reported sleep disorders and missing interns These were the urgencies that bedeviled America in the new age We found ourselves in a valley of history a lull between crises Life was good More to the point it was stable And we were earnest enough to think it would be that way always The lesson we are learning here is that you cannot hide out from history That stability is the exception not the rule And that life and Thanksgiving go on regardless worth remembering that the first modern Thanksgiving celebration took place on Nov 26 1863 Smack in the middle of the Civil War in other words That very day there was heavy fighting at Chicka-mauga Station Tenn The nation was in the midst of its greatest crisis No one could say for certain whether it would even survive Yet Americans those who I AT LARGE FROM 1C thing bittersweet in the juxtaposition of family feast and football games with the knowledge that those rituals have been forever altered for thousands of the newly fatherless brotherless motherless A body might feel humbled by the very act of his own survival If you think about to remind you to count your blessings wrong You need me to tell you to hug your kid or pet your dog Especially now No my point is simply this: Thanksgiving in time of war is different Sharpens to a edge your appreciation of the blessings of your life in the middle of something here something difficult and painful Something that has changed us forever Something the end of which is still unknown in the middle and an unsettling place For years we have lived or so we thought at the end Of upheaval sacrifice history Of suffering confusion and attack Consider some of the most sensational news stories of the quarter-century that ended on Sept 11: the Challenger explosion the OJ Simpson trial the Gulf War the Monica Lewinsky scandal These things are not insignificant But neither are they the Kennedy assassination the Cuban missile crisis Vietnam the Watergate scandal World War II or the Great Depression They are not in other words things that shattered your sense of fundamen- written directed bj Dd POOH GECR05 WRLLR2E A Kip Hep CGTncdY from the Cc-Crcatcr ef "Friday' Features Hew Music bj Sparrn Lies t' Rtfras -1) Key) THE WASH -v-moOI I LlTlJnJM IHM tMiMltMtltCM ESS EH3 mvt SNOWIMK! 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