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Although the fourth Thursday of November falls on a different date every year, the president is expected to proclaim that date as the official celebration.

Although the fourth Thursday of November falls on a different date every year, the president is expected to proclaim that date as the official celebration.

Pilgrims’ triumph over hunger and poverty at Plymouth Colony can be traced to something more than the charitable gestures of a few local Indians. Rather, it involves their courageous decision to replace a failed, socialistic agricultural system with one informed by the free-market principle of private ownership of property -- a century and a half before Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations.

Pilgrims’ triumph over hunger and poverty at Plymouth Colony can be traced to something more than the charitable gestures of a few local Indians. Rather, it involves their courageous decision to replace a failed, socialistic agricultural system with one informed by the free-market principle of private ownership of property -- a century and a half before Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations.<ref>[http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=23453 The Reality of Thanksgiving], by Mike Franc, ''Human Events'', 11/16/2007.</ref>

==Symbols of Thanksgiving==

==Symbols of Thanksgiving==