ウェイン・コインさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ウェイン・コインInstagram)「Repost from @mayordavidholt • Oklahoma City had been through a lot that Thanksgiving. In October, the Spanish Flu had hit the city hard. Ultimately, over 7,000 Oklahomans would die, and the city was not spared. Meanwhile, many of the city’s young men had spent the year overseas, fighting for their country. Just two weeks earlier, the Great War had been won, and the resulting euphoria had briefly washed away the pain of October’s pandemic. On that Thanksgiving Day, November 28th, 1918, the city’s residents found time for gratitude and celebration. Over lunch, Mayor Overholser delivered a Thanksgiving address to 200 of the city’s “newsies,” the young boys who sold newspapers. (Perhaps the Mayor should have been more careful in general. He was still suffering from his own bout of the Flu, and on Christmas Eve, he resigned office in order to focus on his recovery. At the meeting where he resigned, the council named the lake after him.) Bedlam football was played that afternoon at OKC’s fairgrounds, which were then located where Douglass HS is today. OU won 27-0. Special Thanksgiving church services were held. A Shriners parade was staged. Military airplanes circled the city. A dance for soldiers was held at the Ford Model T Assembly Plant on Main Street. (Alas, despite this apparent relaxation of precautions, the Flu was not yet done with OKC. New cases in the city would spike two weeks after Thanksgiving, spurring another round of business restrictions.) Despite the suffering of the war, despite the ongoing threat of the Spanish Flu, The Oklahoman wrote that this “undoubtedly was the greatest Thanksgiving day which Oklahoma City has ever witnessed” and that “a deeper spiritual feeling, a more profound feeling of thankfulness was everywhere in evidence.” In 2020, the residents of Oklahoma City are still an optimistic people. We are grateful today for our blessings, and despite it all, we know what they are and we know that they are many. Among those blessings is the ability to improve upon those things for which we are perhaps not so grateful.」11月27日 8時40分