Thanksgiving is a holiday with a longstanding tradition in our lives as well as American history. However, despite the fact that the holiday goes back to early colonial times, it took almost two and a half centuries to become a national holiday. As we are all aware, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock in September, 1620. Obviously, at such a late point in the year, they struggled to survive throughout the next year because of a lack of food and makeshift dwellings. Fortun