Jeeze you people are
depressing.
Every Thanksgiving my family would gather together in the little rowhome that was my place of residence for 10 years. My family was very large. I'm talking 70 some people folks in this little three story rowhome. We couldn't even all fit at the dining room table, some of us (mostly the kids) sat in the living room and ate.
But we enjoyed ourselves anyway. There was always plenty (I mean PLENTY) to eat and there was an endless amount of things to talk and gossip about. And then us kids would goof off upstairs, running around (don't ask how we ran around that third floor, it was pretty fricken small), playing video games, and just generally acting our ages (and sometimes getting in trouble for it.)
Yeah, the Puritans were uber-fundies and genocide later resulted from the Europeans comming over. But that's not enough reason to blow a holiday to bits folks. For once, try to enjoy something about this crazy mess of our country of ours. You may actually like it (gasp!)