THEY WERE AGREED TO SHARE & SHARE ALIKE, A COMMUNE!
SOME MIGHT SAY a communist society. Their rigid views were either followed to the letter or physical abuse was adminstered to the 'offender' Read up on Roger Williams, leaving in disgust to found neighboring Rhode Island!
You will also learn of the wanton murdering of the native peoples who were displaced from their own land by the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims had need for more fields for planting, it was that simple.

St, Augustine in what is Florida is the oldest continuously inhabited city in North America. The Spanish had set up early towns in what is now New Mexico & Arizonia. The Spanish were just as terrible in theor traetment of the people who lived there before they showed up and took everything over!

PLACED ON THIS ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THIS DEBATE

THE PILGRIMS PRESS AGENTS DID A GREAT JOB SPINNING THE INCORRECT PITY & GOOD CHRISTIAN
MISINFORMATION! READ THIS AN KNOW WHERE I STAND

 I don't agree with the statement. Just as we now know that Columbus was no saint, we have known about the shortcomings of the Pilgrims for a long time. We don't necessarily have to honor Columkbus, but we honor his extraordinary achievements.

Thanksgiving is not only about the pilgrims. What they accomplished was to establish a framework for this country. Why shouldn't we honor that? Isn't it appropriate for us to take one day a year to be thankful for that and for what we now have?

 Although both groups were formed out of the puritanical movement in England there were differances in the two groups.

The pilgrams arrived at the site on which they would build their colony in 1620. The pilgrams paid the indians for the land on which the colony was built and some surronding property. The Pilgrams set up a government, using the Mayflower Compact as a covenant, in which they elected their leaders each year. Most of the Pilgrams were mostly yeomen-working men of lower end of the economical and social status scale.

The Puritans landed at the site on which they were to build their Massschusetts Bay Colony in the late 1680s, building onthe land with the belief that they were given it by divine power. They also elected their community leaders, but the difference was once elected they had their title for life, again a concept that a divine power had ordained them to lead. The puritans were of a higher economical and social status.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans at one point tried to take land from the Plymouth Colony Pilgrams using the concept that it was their right by divine intervention, with compelete disregard to the fact that the land had been paid for. When the boats that were carrying all of the Puritans supplys and equipment were sent to Plymouth they were destroyed. All the cargo was retrieved and returned to the owners. The Puritans sent another set of boats out with the same results, having their supplys returned to them by the Pilgrams.
Th Puritains decided to look else where to build.

The Puritan govenor William Bradford did organize a group to raid a Perquot indian village in 1637. This party of men did kill all of the men women and children of in the camp, an act which was to be repeated at another camp in two weeks. The Plymouth pilgrams did not respond to the request for two weeks after the raids took place. Govenor Bradford reports, in his journal, that he sent the pilgrams home saying that their aid was too little too late, they could just stay home.

 I don't honor the pilgrims per se, but I do give thanks for the blessings in my life. No individual is perfect, and some are worse than others. However, the premise of giving thanks for the bounty in our lives should not be diminished by the fact that man constantly and through out history has tried to dominate one another... Whether it be one nation over another, one race over another or even one tribe over another. That is not what the holiday was supposed to be about. Just as Christmas was not intended to be one of possessions.

 I think they deserve to be honored, they are a part of history. If someone don't like what we honor then maybe they should move to COOBA or some other country and forget about the USA.

 What did they do?i mean i would just thank you for becoming Christian.

 They were persecuted in their lands for living the way that they did. They came to escape that persecution and yes the puritans were very strict and ruthless even. However, I would like to point out that more Indians died from blankets than bullets. Many of the diseases we had immunity against, the Indians had never been exposed to. Cholera being one of the biggest killers.

 We don't honor thanksgiving that way. We use it to celebrate the harvest. I don't feel people who latter thanked native America's for showing them how not to starve to death during the bad winter by taking their land and killing them should be honored..

 No they came to make a better life for themselves but they made a living mess for the Indians

 There have been no people that have ever been free of the blood of other people.

Yet in the midst of this, Thanksgiving seeks to honour what is best among men; Love of God, thankfulness for what we have been blessed with, love for one another, and the unity of all men.

In the midst of this world's madness, we can still remember the important things.

 OK I am confused with the way the question is worded, I do not honor the 'Pilgrims' on Thanksgiving day, I honor it as a day to be thankful of what has blessed my life since the previous year, the Turkey and Ham and all that other stuff is just tradition, and further more I am not 'Indian' because I am not from India, I am a Native American from North America.

 Is "religion" ever anything more than a pretense for teaming up with one subset of humanity to subjugate and disenfranchise others? Does God love some but not others? True "freedom" of necessity refuses to think in terms of "winners" and "losers"