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Best wishes to all for a pleasant Thanksgiving, which at Flathead Memo is also Turkey Day.
Two Days ago, Turkey shot down a Russian military jet that allegedly trespassed into Turkish airspace above the Haytay Province. Although on most maps the Haytay border between Turkey and Syria is a bright line, Syria disputes Turkish ownership of the area which Turkey, with France’s connivance, appropriated in 1939. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a good account of the Haytay dispute’s history.
I’ll spare you videos of how to carve a turkey. Instead, here’s the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band’s version of Turkey in the Straw, to which you can dance to work off those extra helpings of potatoes and pumpkin pie. The tune has a dark history, according to singer Tom Roush.