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While recreating these WWII Thanksgiving recipes offers a way to connect with history, it also serves as a reminder of the resilience and creative spirit of those wartime cooks. As today’s families gather around their tables, the sentiment expressed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1943 resonates powerfully: "May we on Thanksgiving Day and on every day express our gratitude and zealously devote ourselves to our duties as individuals and as a nation."

This Thanksgiving, let us all remember the sacrifices of those who fought for our freedom, mingling their memories with the familiar aromas and flavors of the holiday. The true essence of Thanksgiving lies not only in the food we share but in the connections we maintain and the histories we honor. Happy Thanksgiving!