Here, the communities led by gedolim who we know of, such as eav Eliezer silver, did not engage in communal acknowledgement of Thanksgiving in the form of changing our davening (the most extreme case) or even just giving sermons. It’s not the same as “jews always have done it”, when we have no proof from poskim or teshuvos that allow it. Until such time, deviances from the norm of not acknowledging non-jewisy holidays should he considered abberations and halachikally unproven at best.
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