Although many countries and cultures have some type of ceremony for celebrating their blessings, no one celebrates Thanksgiving quite the way we do in the U.S. And for good reason. Few people on earth have as much for which to be thankful.

Nightline host Ted Koppel emigrated to the U.S. from England in his early teen years. The Koppels were originally from Germany, but moved to England at the start of World War II. They had lived through food rationing, and had known the scarcity and desperation that accompanies war. So a few years later, when young Ted heard a jingle on the radio about an antacid that could heal the pain of overeating, he began to cry. He couldn’t imagine that he now lived in a country, the U.S., where people had problems with eating and drinking too much. He knew that i…