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STAFF PUBLISHER Bill Bowman bbowman@upandcomingweekly.com ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERS Janice Burton Joy Crowe editor@upandcomingweekly.com STAFF WRITER Stephanie Crider stephanie@upandcomingweekly.com MARKETING/SALES Mary Beth Leiby Marybeth@upandcomingweekly.com OFFICE MANAGER Deborah Baughn deborah@upandcomingweekly.com –––––––––––––– GRAPHIC DESIGNER Alicia Miller art@upandcomingweekly.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Soni Martin, D.G. Mar tin, Pitt Dick ey, Margaret Dickson, Bob Cogswell, John Hood, Shanessa Fenner, Erinn Crider, Karen Poppele, Heather Griffi ths, Beth Solzsmon-Carpenter –––––––––––– Up & Coming Weekly www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan Street P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: (910) 484-6200 FAX: (910) 484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a “Quality of Life” publication with local features, news and infor- mation on what’s happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. Up & Coming Weekly is published weekly on Wednesdays. Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publication consideration, but assumes no responsibility for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Air Force Base, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per per- son. Subscriptions can be purchased for $30 for six months or $60 for 12 months, delivered weekly by first class mail. ©2007 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. INSIDE PUBLISHER’S PEN by JANICE BURTON 1863 wasn’t exactly a banner year for the United States. The country was embroiled in the Civil War. The fertile farmlands of the South were lying fallow as the men who had tended them faithfully year after year answered the call to war. In the north, the factories that had been driving commercial success for the young nation had also turned to war. On the battlefi elds across this great nation, young men — the hope and talent of a new generation — lay bleeding. Their families waited patiently at home. For some the wait would be in vain. They only learned of their loss when a member of their loved one’s regiment would stagger back home. Families that once lived fairly comfortable lives were forced to scratch out sustenance from the land. They ate what they could fi nd — even weeds like okra. Money, real money, wasn’t to be found. There were plenty of Confederate dollars but they were not worth the paper they were printed on. Yet in the midst of all of this, on Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation of Thanksgiving. The proclamation, originally written by Secretary of State William Seward, called on the people of the nation to refl ect on all that they had to be thankful for. It pointed out that in the midst of war, the nation had not fallen into anarchy — that laws still existed and people, for the most part, still followed them. The proclamation noted that the borders of the country had expanded; the population had grown even though many had died. Further, it stressed that while there was much wrong, there was still much good in our nation. I think we can look at 2010 and see a refl ection of 1863. No, we are not embroiled in a physical civil war, but we are a nation at war. And, we are a nation that is sharply divided along political lines. Some would see it as a divide of the Fayetteville’s Weather Forecast Friday Saturday November 25 November 26 November 27 Fayetteville’s Weather Forecast Thursday haves and the have nots, others see it as an ideological divide. Our young men are dying, but not here in our homeland. They are dying in the streets of Iraq and the mountain passes of Afghanistan. And today, families wait patiently for their loved ones return, and our nation grieves when they do not. Many are homeless and jobless, and money is tight. But still we go on just as our forefathers did some 147 years ago. For some of us, we look to God as our strength and on Thanksgiving Day, we will offer our thanks for his enduring love and mercy that has seen us through another year. Others will not. And that’s the beauty of America. But during this week of Thanksgiving, Even when times are tough, it’s important to count our blessings. I’d like to share a portion of what President Lincoln’s asked of the nation in 1863. I fi nd it very fi tting today: “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 benefi cent 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.” JANICE BURTON, Associate Publisher. COMMENTS? 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