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Thanksgiving Reminder from The Gipper

In a day and age when it often feels like we have very little to be thankful for when it comes to politics, it's important we remember just how lucky - how blessed and free - we truly are.

God, family, country: and in that order.  A thankful people are a happy people.  They are a brave and confident people, one ready to help the helpless and fight for causes and ideals that appear all but lost.

Americans aren't special: but our ideas, ideals, and values are.

Here to remind us of a few things we ought to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Weekend are two clips from President Ronald Reagan.

From 1985:

And this one, The Gipper's farewell address to the nation in 1989:

God bless you and your families. God bless America.