The 98th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will be on 6 News Thursday morning starting at 8:30 a.m. central and will run until noon.

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving ” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth ...