> If an American was out of the country on the day, would he still want to celebrate with a typical Thanksgiving, no matter where he was?
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Yes.

As most of you should know by now, I lived in Europe for five years, and we were there for Thanksgiving every single year. (Trips back to the States were not frequent, although they did happen.) The expatriate community made a large effort to provide the trappings of Thanksgiving. Travelling businessmen who went to the States would come back with cans of pumpkin and yams packed in their suitcases. The military families would buy turkeys for us from the base store. And EVERYBODY went to the special church service on Thanksgiving, in a grand old stone cathedral in the nearby town of Leiden (also spelled Leyden). It was the cathedral in which the Pilgrims would worship, during the time between when they originally left England and when they left the Old World permanently. So that was pretty cool.

Sosi"the turkeys were kinda pathetic, but it was good"qui