Thievery XIV and Linkage

First the thievery...

Stolen from Lex.  There's gonna be a lot of thievery of this graphic if one takes the comments at Lex's place seriously.  Also noted in comments there:  why is this freakin' sticker ALWAYS found on Priuses and Subarus?  That was purely rhetorical; no answer required.

And now the linkage.  This is the finest reminiscence of Thanksgiving as I have ever read, anywhere.  And not just today.  EVER.  I'll quote part of what I said in comments at Cricket's place:

Thanks for this, Cricket... it's the Thanksgiving I never had.

We had Thanksgivings when I was a child but they were of a different sort since I was a military brat. They were always celebrated in someplace other than home... and for five years straight it was overseas... and family consisted solely of Mom, Dad, my sister and I. There were always friends around the table... my father's comrades in arms and their families and quite often single troops with nowhere to go but the mess hall... but no grandparents, aunts, or uncles. And family IS one of the best parts of Thanksgiving, isn't it?

If you miss this post you're missing one hella fine piece of writing.