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Dear Friends, Once again, we would like to share our thanks for the blessings we have received during this past year. It has been a busy year for our office, and we’ve had many opportunities to meet new clients and make new friends. This is also a special year for the state of Wisconsin. As…

Dear Friends, Several of you have shared with us that our annual Thanksgiving greeting is becoming a part of the holiday tradition in many of your homes. All of us here greatly appreciate the relationships we have established with you over the last five years, and we are pleased to be able to join you…

Dear Friends, Over the past six years that we have been sending a Thanksgiving greeting, our list of office friends has grown from a few hundred to over a thousand! This we count as a blessing. We look forward to this season of giving thanks to express our appreciation to all whom we have had…

Dear Friends, A picture of a soldier, hands clasped, on bended knee in a snowy forest, hangs in our office reception area. This print depicts General George Washington praying at Valley Forge during the Revolutionary War, a desperate time in our country as we fought for freedom and independence. Washington was probably one of the…

Dear Friends: I remember my first grade days in a two-room schoolhouse in New Berlin when the area was still more pasture than the parking lot. Every morning, school started with all of us standing at attention next to our desks, right hands over our hearts, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. I suspect most of…

Dear Friends: In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson completed the Louisiana Purchase and commissioned the Lewis & Clark expedition to explore our newly acquired territory, which doubled the size of our country. Jefferson’s vision created a land of liberty that stretched from sea to shining sea. This year, we celebrate the bicentennial of those events. The…

Dear Friends: As we come to this season of Thanksgiving, we give thanks that we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. These words are, of course, so familiar to us because they are taken from the final line of our national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. These words have…

Dear Friends, It seems almost impossible to believe that ten years ago this month we sent our first Thanksgiving greeting. At that time, we had no idea this would become a tradition, nor did we realize it would evolve into an annual reminder of our blessed heritage. In that first letter of 1995, we provided…

Dear Friends, The Liberty Bell is one of the most famous visible symbols of freedom in our nation’s history. It was used to announce the first public reading of our Declaration of Independence and celebrated the 100th anniversary of President George Washington’s birth. After the Civil War, it was sent on tour throughout the South…

Dear Friends, As we are bombarded daily by the political “wisdom” of the presidential candidates about the character of our individual and national life, we all would do well to consider the Thanksgiving thoughts of a man who became President, without being elected to office. He was a man of destiny. Born to a family…