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Last week I hosted a study break for students in my residence hall and screened “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.”  This was the first time many of them had ever seen this holiday classic, and their reactions were overall very positive, with smiles and chuckles at the “quaint humor,” as some of them put it.

However, many of their smiles turned to grimaces and furrowed brows as Linus set the context for the gang’s feast:

In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food.

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Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: ‘We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land.

We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice.

After the Linus’s benediction, the following dicta were overhea