A Thanksgiving Flash Back-It's Worth The Trip I Promise
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Originally Published Thanksgiving 2001
The old bromide that states: "the more things change the more they stay the same is proven correct once again".
With today being the 6th Thanksgiving that The Auto Channel has been on-line, I wanted badly to be able to compose a meaningful Thanksgiving message to post in our Automotive News area, to enliven a decidedly slow news day.
So I sat, and apprehensively starred at my monitor, waiting for a creative inspiration to pop into my mind, to spark me to deliver a message that would truly reflect what has happened to us as a Nation and capture our viewers lives in snapshots of time.
I finally came up with what I think is an interesting history lesson and an indication of really how lucky and fortunate we who live in the United States have been (and still are).
In spite of the unforgivable terror of 9/11 The USA continues to roll along, just like the mighty Ohio river that is directly outside my office window; it rises and falls, quickens and slows, turns muddy brown and algae green, but, as George Gershwin once said of another mighty stream: "It just keeps rolling along"
I'm hoping and praying that when one of my Grandchildren sits down to write The Auto Channels 45th Thanksgiving greeting, her reflections of Automotive News as published on The Auto Channel will be positive and reflective of how Blessed we are to be Americans.
Read the stories below, as published in The Auto Channel over the past 6 years and let me know what you think.
Bob Gordon Co-Founder
The Auto Channel
bgordon@tach.com
Happy Thanksgiving and God Bless America!
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