Happy Thanksgiving at Signal Knob, Virginia

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[Eric J]

Sir: I am correct in remembering that hill is somewhere between Hagarstown and Emmittsburg MD?

[Jose]

Beautiful view, I miss the Hills/Mountains which are lacking in Florida...

Happy Thanksgiving to all, pray for me...this year we are going to my brothers house...from what my sister-in-law has cooked so far...hope not to get a severe food poisoning...lol

Still probably better than what some troops will get in combat, so pray for them too...

Happy Thanksgiving...

[Andy]

Best wishes and Happy Thanksgiving to Col. Lang and STT readers. I'm particularly thankful this year and am looking forward to hosting family and friends tomorrow.

[Maureen Lang]

It's 81 here in L.A. & I've got the two back doors of our home open; oven's been on a while now due to a day-long bakeathon involving pumpkin, quince, & blackberry pies. Everyone at SST/TA is invited to have a slice of one of them tomorrow with some flavored cream. Unfortunately those slices will have to be of the virtual sort...

A very Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[Bill Wade, NH]

Happy Thanksgiving!!! Headed to New Joisey to cook for my Mom. Be Well All!!!

[Buzz Meeks]

Pat,

Best wishes this Thanksgiving.

Buzz Meeks

[Sherry Long]

Colonel Lang:

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family and to all who contribute to this wonderful site.

Sherry and Rob De Mandel

[frank durkee]

My former wife lived in the Valley, in Waynesboro. I still remember how beautiful and welcomming it was as we came into it.
You are indeed lucky to live there. Thank you for your blog and your time.

[dricey]

Reminds me of Massanutten.

[Robert C.]

Nice. Second growth timber I presume....or old growth?

R. Colbert

[Lysander]

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Colonel

And to all SST posters

[par4]

And to you also,Col.

[Patrick Lang]

dicey et al

That is because it IS Massanutten. Three Top Mountain at the north end of the Massanutten ridge. This is the view from the back porch of my old house there. The North Fork of the Shenandoah River lies hidden in the trees on the far side of the farmer's field. I think it is probably primary growth. It is too steep up there on the sides to log. John B. Gordon led his 12,000 men (all that was left of 2nd Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia) and a dis-assembled battery of artillery across the nose of that ridge in a night march to be in position to attack at dawn in the battle of Cedar Creek, October, 1864. Cedar Creek is a tributary of the Shenandoah River and lies just in front of the nose of the ridge. A haunted place. pl

[zanzibar]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy the warmth of good food, family and friends.

[William R. Cumming]

A truly all-American holiday! Special thanks to those remaining on duty so rest of US can enjoy it but still plenty to give Thanksgiving for in November 2009 in US!

Sugar Loa, MD?

[Charles I]

Happy Thanksgiving to Pat and all at SST.

Canada's Thanksgiving was last month. Personal circumstances have left me literally thanking Creation out loud at least twice a day, everyday this year. Thank you to you all for the riches shared here.

They also left me a familyless orphan, so Maureen, thank you very much for the offer of pie and cream. I shall be savouring the blackberry if there's a slice left when get there in my mind.

Let us thank all our soldiers in the field, and those inclined, please pray for their delivery, and succor for their families as we digest the moment, as my Gods care not a whit about our fates.

[Mark Logan]

Best wishes.

A backhanded tribute to
the spirit of thanksgiving
from CK Lewis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzNrO54xsY&NR=1

"The secret to happiness is being thankful"

[different clue]

Happy Thanksgiving all. This year I worked so I will have past and future turkey in mind and memory. Same for thoughts of pie and other things.

I heard again on a radio program an interesting point
I have heard before. Whereas various religious holidays ( Christmas, Hannukah, Ramadan and others) are when people revisit the memorial foods of their ethno-cultural communities or ancestors; Thanksgiving is where people of whatever group derivation and/or communal/religious identity all come their closest to the common ritual American menu. Religious Jews will have kosher turkey, religious Muslims will have halal turkey, vegetarian fundamentalists will have, umm...tofurki.

(The ridge picture was nice to see. I have lived in Southeast Michigan for so long that any reasonable ridge now looks highly dramatic.)

[Maureen Lang]

Charles I,

The nice thing about virtual pies is there's always a slice left. Welcome to the table- vanilla cream or burnt sugar? I've got a bit of both left in the fridge, actually.

My thoughts this Thanksgiving weekend re: our soldiers (of any & all times) words here won't adequately convey, so I'll simply say bless & keep all.

[Michael Torpey]

Happy Thanks giving to all. Mike Torpey and the family

[Bobo]

Happy belated Thanksgiving.

Having spent it with friends of 40+ years our conversations seemed to always come back to discussing friends and how they are today. But the main theme revolved around the Vietnam war as it was part of our lives and affected us all in different ways.

Thinking of Iraq and Afghanistan brings the thought of how our children or grandchildren will be doing the same in forty years as their wars
will have a major affect on their lives and friends.

[Charles I]

Why thank you Maureen, I must opt for both given the chance.

As it turns out, I shall be dining with friends in their home this evening. Their son recently signed up with the CAF, and is waiting to be deployed to Afghanistan. So my thoughts are a little closer to home than I realized.

[seydlitz89]

Happy Thanksgiving Col Lang-

And to all the readers as well.

Here in Portugal our Thanksgiving will have to wait until Sunday.

[Clifford Kiracofe]

Best wishes to you Pat and to your family and to SST folks.

Cliff

[kao_hsien_chih]

Happy Thanksgiving to the colonel, his family and friends, and to all other SST readers!