Officially Thanksgiving

A portion of the Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day October 3, 1863 from allabouthistory.org

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth.

Abraham Lincoln

From the team here at BuyWisconsinLand.com we wish everyone a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!

Home of the Brave

Thursday, November 11th, we will honor all those men and women who have stood up and kept our country free. On Veterans Day please pause at 11:11AM and remember the soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and national guardsmen who protect us every day.

There will be ceremonies across Wisconsin on November 11th to honor Veterans. Here are just a few:

The Highground Veterans Memorial Park, Neillsville 3PM
Richland Center High School, Richland Center 10AM
Wisconsin State Capitol Building, Madison 11AM
Wisconsin Veterans Home and Museum, King 10:30AM
City War Memorial, South Milwaukee 11AM
Cambria-Friesland High School, Cambria 1PM
New Berlin Library, New Berlin 10AM
Veterans Memorial Park and Red Cliff Bingo Hall, Bayfield 10AM
Veterans Park, Fond du Lac 11AM
Shell Lake High School, Shell Lake, 10AM
Spooner High School, Spooner 10AM
Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Spooner 1PM
47th Annual Veterans Day Parade, Milwaukee, 10:30AM
War Memorial, Milwaukee, following parade
Wisconsin Veterans Home, Union Grove 11AM
Waukesha Historical Society and Museum, Waukesha, 4PM
Veterans Terrace Building in Echo Park, Burlington 10AM
Heritage Hill, Green Bay 6:30PM

To all you Veterans: You are our heroes. Thank you for your service.