From a reader:

Jonah,
I read your post on Thanksgiving and the interpretation of the holiday by the Ayn Rand Institute. It struck me that perhaps this is where the notion of original intent may be most appropriate considering the times we live in, our brave men and women who are serving in far off places, and the risks they are facing day in and day out. And for that, I will defer to the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, as written through the pen of William Seward.
“I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.”
Seems to me that his proclamation speaks volumes today, as it did in 1863.
All the best to you and the rest of the tireless crew at NRO.