Happy Thanksgiving

We have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving -- the professional grumblers among us notwithstanding.

by Rod D. Martin
November 23, 2005

We have much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving -- the professional grumblers among us notwithstanding.

If you're reading this, chances are you're not only alive, but have food in your fridge, clothes on your back, and a pretty decent roof over your head. Indeed, more Americans own their own roofs than ever before.

You also have a computer, the marvel of our age, and the freedom it gives you to find whatever information you want and not merely that which an elite would spoon-feed you in pursuit of its interests and not your own.

That should be enough to make you grateful all by itself.

But there's far, far more.

Yes, we've had our share of hurricanes.

I know. Not long ago, my family and I survived one of them ourselves.

It was terrible. We lost our home and virtually everything we owned.

But we're here to tell about it.

We can be very grateful that the loss of life, across the Gulf coast, has been far less than expected.

And we will rebuild. We always have. We…