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To mark the Thanksgiving holiday, the Editorial Board offers excerpts from presidential Thanksgiving proclamations with our best wishes for everyone in Hampton Roads to enjoy this day with family and friends.

“One of the splendid events which shape man’s destiny occurred when a small band of people, believing in the essential sanctity of their own being, went in search of a land in which their individuality might be the highest national value, before any arbitrary limitation or duty placed upon some men by the whim or design of others. … these men and women — and those of the other early settlements — prevailed. And the settlers gathered to give thanks for God’s bounty, for the blessings of life itself, and for the freedom which they so cheris

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