Schon am Wochenende gingen in Sozialen Netzwerken Bilder von den überfüllten Flughäfen etwa in Chicago und Phoenix um. Tatsächlich wurden von Freitag bis Sonntag mehr als drei Millionen Passagiere an den US-Flughäfen gezählt, so viele wie noch nie seit Beginn der Pandemie.
Archiv: Thanksgiving
Native Americans To Tell Dark Truths on Mayflower Anniversary
“The story of how the colonizers quickly forgot their manners is the one that has been marginalized,” Peters lamented, who described as a “terrible irony” that the pilgrims, themselves the target of religious persecution, were not tolerant of the Natives’ spiritual beliefs.
Walmart made $9.86 billion last year. Surely, they can afford to pay employees working over the long Thanksgiving weekend extra. America doesn’t suffer from scarcity — we suffer from greed.
Mike Pence visits Marines in Beaufort
Pence visits Marines for Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving 500,000 Americans are homeless. I fight for them. 45 million are dealing with student debt and hundreds of thousands will skip college due to cost. I fight for them. 87 million are underinsured or have no health insurance at all. #IFightForThem.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
28. Nov. 2019
Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Afghanistan, says talks with Taliban ongoing
In his first trip to the site of America‘s longest war, Trump arrived at Bagram Air Field shortly after 8:30 p.m. local time Thursday and spent 3½ hours on the ground, serving turkey, thanking the troops and sitting down with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani before leaving just after midnight.
Trump wiegelt Militär gegen Gerichte und politische Gegner auf
Zu den Angerufenen gehörten Oberst Stephanie Barton von der 101. Fallschirmjägerdivision in Afghanistan; Leutnant Oberst Sam Howie von den Marines auf dem Luftwaffenstützpunkt al-Jaber Air Base in Kuwait; Kapitän Pat Hannifin von der Navy auf der USS Ronald Reagan; Brigadegeneral David Lyons von der Air Force in Afghanistan; und Leutnant Nicholas Hartmann von der US Coast Guard in Bahrain.
Three Thanksgivings – Snapshots From a Career of Failure
And this author, well, he spent this Thanksgiving, without his family and on a shoe-strong of mental health – a marriage on the rocks, worsening PTSD, and in the grips of depression. There were times, this holiday, that I earnestly wished I was back in Baghdad or Kandahar – laughing along with comrades as we lost a war that shouldn’t have been fought. The mind plays tricks, you know? Still, other veterans had it worse. Data indicates about 22 vets kill themselves per day – and the stats don’t break for the holidays. Others struggled to keep warm under bridges or in various shelters. Meanwhile, jets flew over packed NFL stadiums adorned with field-sized American flags, and mainstream media outlets treated viewers to cheerful video notes home from deployed troops. Hardly anyone asked what we’re still doing there.
By the way, another US Army Ranger was killed over this holiday weekend. Oh, and on this Thanksgiving, so did at least 26 Afghans – in case anyone is still counting…