Thanksgiving Day 1941
Standing on the precipice.
All across the country, the weather was unseasonably warm for Thanksgiving: 62 degrees in New York. 60 in Los Angeles. 56 in Phoenix. 36 in Minneapolis.
Skiers and kids with sleds moaned, but the short skirted baton-twirlers in Macy’s annual Thanksgiving Day parade breathed a sigh of relief.
They’d stay warm, as would the throngs of parade-goers th…
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