Thanks & Forgetting

I have very dark thoughts about the Thanksgiving holiday. While most people's thoughts run to a vision of the Mayflower crowd and Ozzie and Harriet, my thoughts run for some strange reasons to the indigenous Native Americans and Woody Allen's Hannah and her Sisters - best American holiday film ever, better than It's a Wonderful Life. I think what Thanksgiving means for many people is the beginning of the 'Thanks-getting' festivities - Black Friday which begins for some merchants on Thursday, Thanksgiving day! But of course there are three professional football games on TV today - thankfully we don't have to be mindful of any ugly historical bits. Nor do we, while watching football, have to engage with our families very much. 

    Except for "Jingle Bells" are there any Thanksgiving tunes? "Turkey in the Straw" I guess. But of course being a true American is in large part about forgetting, isn't it? "Don't know much about History" is another Thanksgiving tune.
     Thanks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7cLnijKBs&feature=youtu.be   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNi36U4SQI&feature=youtu.be

P.S. Hadley Freeman in November 22, 2011 Guardian writes:

Yes, it's Thanksgiving time in America, that special holiday marking the Anglo-Saxon invasion of someone else's country, which Americans celebrate by eating sweet potatoes and marshmallows. Mixed together, naturellement.

Is that what I was getting at?

Paul Krugman has - as always - something interesting to add about Thanksgiving:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/thanksgiving-is-un-american/?nl=opinion&emc=tyb1