Giving Thanks

This Wall Street Journal editorial, published every Thanksgiving, has got to be one of my all time favorite holiday essays.

And a traveler cannot but be struck on his journey by the thought that this country, one day, can be even greater. America, though many know it not, is one of the great underdeveloped countries of the world; what it reaches for exceeds by far what it has grasped.

Despite the advances made since 1961 when this was written, I think that this paragraph still holds true and that it underlines the source of our greatness, our ambition and the ability to fulfill it.

Written 42 years ago, it still sums up things up pretty well. Take a few minutes out of your holiday to go read it.