【正文】 ung people give part of their holiday to volunteer at homeless shelters or food Thanksgiving, and on every day of the year, America is a more hopeful nation because of the volunteers who serve the weak and the Thanksgiving tradition of passion and humility dates back to the earliest days of our through the years, our deepest gratitude has often been inspired by the most difficult four centuries ago, the pilgrims set aside time to thank God after suffering through a bitter Washington held Thanksgiving during a trying stay at Valley President Lincoln revived the Thanksgiving tradition in the midst of a civil past year has brought many challenges to our nation, and Americans have met every one with energy, optimism and lifting our economy from a recession, manufacturers and entrepreneurs are creating jobs from across the country came together to help hurricane victims when the children of Beslan, Russia suffered a brutal terrorist attack, the world saw Americas generous heart in an outpouring of passion and greatest challenges of our time have e to the men and women who protect our fortunate to have dedicated firefighters and police officers to keep our streets grateful for the homeland security and intelligence personnel who spend long hours on faithful we give thanks to the men and women of our military who are serving with courage and skill, and making our entire nation proud.世界名人英語(yǔ)演講稿2Vice President Johnson, , Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens:We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedomsymbolizing an end, as well as a beginningsignifying renewal, as well as I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and threequarters world is very different man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globethe belief that the rights of man e not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americansborn in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been mitted, and to which we are mitted today at home and around the every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of much we pledgeand those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative there is little we can dofor we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split those new states whom we wele to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron shall not always expect to find them supporting our we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedomand to remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside.