As we mark another Thanksgiving Day, it is proper, we think, to remember why it is this day became the tradition it is. Begun in New England during colonial times, Thanksgiving Day was the premiere holiday in a land that eschewed Christmas as an affront to Puritan Christianity. It remembered those who came to this land seeking a new life, A City on a Hill.

Today we commemorate Veterans Day, the time when we honor those men and women who have served this nation in war and peace. Originally known as "Armistice Day," it marked the end of the "Great War" as World War I was known.