The Issue: How stores opening today and consumer culture affect families celebrating Thanksgiving.
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It’s not just about Christmas anymore (“A Prayer of Petition This Thanksgiving,” Timothy Cardinal Dolan, PostOpinion, Nov. 20).
The trend to open shops on Thanksgiving Day, disguised as a capitalist move, is a culture-war battle. It wholly contributes to the disintegration of the American family base.
Don’t bother to thank God for your blessings, just shop for more stuff. Beware: Secular progression is on the move and coming to an all-American store near you.
America, we must save ourselves from ourselves. Do not shop on Thanksgiving. It’s literally anti-American.
Dierdre Harvey
Valley Stream
To those who have gone before and are no longer with us, may we be worthy of the legacy that they left and may we leave something of value to those that follow us.Tom Mitchell
Holmdel, NJ
Skip the chain stores’ annual Black Friday madness, which now starts Thursday night.
Stay home and enjoy your Thanksgiving meal with friends and family, get a good night’s sleep and support small business by shopping locally.
In these difficult economic times, it is especially important to patronize neighborhood businesses.
These people are our neighbors. They work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment.
If we don’t patronize our local community stores and restaurants to shop and eat, they don’t eat. Help keep our neighbors employed and the local economy growing.Larry Penner
Great Neck
It is again time to give thanks. It is also time to think of our fellow New Yorkers and those who lost so much during Hurricane Sandy, which left many with nothing or very little.
Let’s give to those who are in such great need. Remember what Thankgiving is all about: caring, giving and sharing.
It is the kindness of strangers that means so much to those who have so little.F. Bedell Jr.
Glen Oaks Village