Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from Bond Products!

Life can be challenging. When times are tough it can be difficult to see the good happening around us and remember to be thankful for it. 

Fortunately, that is what Thanksgiving is for. If we look back at history, it helps to put things in perspective. For instance, the Pilgrim settlers who feasted with the Wampanoag Indians at the First Thanksgiving in Plymouth would have been happy to change places with nearly any American living today. They celebrated having enough to eat in 1621 after a year of hunger and death. In fact, they barely made it through their first winter in North America. Half of them did not. Because they set foot on land too late in 1620 to either farm or forage much and far north of Virginia where they had planned to settle, their food stores had dwindled.

The captain of the Mayflower wanted to abandon them to their harsh surroundings without shelter, but they persuaded him to stay and managed to built one common building for the men to live in. That burned down in January of 1621, and everyone was forced to stay on the ship until spring. Soon after that a “General Sickness” brought them low. Twenty-five crew members died, and of the 102 original Pilgrims, only 51 survived that first year.

The climate in Massachusetts was much colder and harsher than the one the Pilgrims were used to, they didn’t know the land, the plants, or the weather, and they had no established relationships with the native people. They had to build a new community from nothing and rule and defend it from both external and internal challenges. Yet these people continued to live, work, pray, and celebrate together with their new neighbors, and their descendants forged a crucial part of American history.

While we as Americans have challenges and burdens to bear in our everyday lives, we are lucky and blessed to live in communities with resources and protections. People are free to live, work, and worship as they desire, and they do.

We at Bond Products are proud of our family’s history in this country and the years we have done business in the city of Philadelphia. We are thankful for our customers, our workers, and our opportunities. We hope you will have a very happy Thanksgiving and remember that gratitude is a gift we can give ourselves every day of the year.

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