And They Kept Coming

And They Kept Coming

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And They Kept Coming

Written by Luz Leigh - 17 November 2007

Thanksgiving Day will be here in a few days. This day will mark the celebration that began back in 1621, less than a year after the Pilgrims arrived in the New World. The lived through a dreadful first winter here, a time when almost half of the members of their colony died. They were a hardy bunch, determined to make a go of it in their new home.

When the summer arrived and they had a good corn crop, the Governor proclaimed that a three-day feast would be held. Thank goodness they invited the Indians who had taught them many valuable lessons about survival because the Indians brought the turkeys. Now what would Thanksgiving be with turkey?

Recently I attended a patriotic performance at my grandson's school. The children were all dressed in costumes ... Balboa, Christopher Columbus, Chloe (an Indian maiden), Pilgrims, William Bradford, John Winthrop, etc. Most of the sixty-plus students had speaking parts. Except for John Winthrop, of course, who was played by my grandson, none spoke the truth more clearly than Chloe who continued to repeat her line, "And they kept coming." I'm only kidding about the importance of John Winthrop's lines; just wanted to interject something about my grandson. LOL

As the story in the play unfolded about the arrival of the Pilgrims, the settlement of the country, the expansion toward the west and the heartbreaking story of the War between the States, Chloe's words kept echoing throughout the play ... "And they kept coming." As one watched Chloe make her way to the center of the stage, dressed in what we think of as the attire of an Indian maiden, her long hair plaited, we began to think her words even before she spoke them ... "And they kept coming." Except today, our thoughts are "and they still keep coming."

How long before we legal citizens, who have ancestral roots going back generations, will be pushed out just as Chloe's people were?

"And they kept coming." Chloe's words echo hauntingly in our collective minds.

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