What's Thanksgiving about?

actually one of my american friends had explained to me about it .it is something the day when the american pilgrims met americans ,something of that sort.but we take it as a oppourtunity to give thanks to the LORD who created us.

It's a celebration in the states regarding the relationship of the White Americans and the native americans I believe. I'm not sure as well haha but what I heard is that there's something about how hospitable the native Americans were to the white Americans by providing them food and such :P Thanks for the comment on my discussion!

In autumn 1621, about a year after the Mayflower Pilgrims made landfall at Plymouth, they put together a feast and broke bread with their Native American neighbors, the Wampanoag, who were celebrating Keepunumuk, the time of the harvest. The menu featured fowl, venison and fish, along with wheat and corn products. Sporadic national, regional and individual Thanksgivings followed, but the day did not become an annual, national holiday until 1863. Americans were waging the Civil War, and in the midst of it President Abraham Lincoln, spurred on by the lobbying efforts of writer Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national day in which to express thanks for the many blessings enjoyed by Americans, e.g., natural resources and population growth, despite the military conflict. this info found at: http://www.answers.com/topic/thanksgiving-day has LOTS more stuff about it. for my family Thanksgiving is a celebration of being thankful for our loved ones and our lives..but mostly its about the gathering of the family in one place to be with each other.