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Title: Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
Post by: Ptarmigan on November 25, 2010, 11:36:45 AM

Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Stars and Stripes
Published: November 25, 2010

ADRASKAN NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER, Afghanistan — If he were back home Thursday, Marine Lance Cpl. Chad Berry would have eaten turkey and ham at the home of one of his sets of grandparents in Tennessee. If it was his father’s side of the family, they’d go deer hunting after dinner, then come home and eat some more.

Back home, Pfc. Ysnardy Torres, 21, would be in New York City, visiting family in three boroughs, eating a lot of shredded turkey and his aunt’s flan, a type of custard dessert.

“I’d be going from house to house, getting food,” he said Thursday morning while training Afghan police recruits at the Adraskan National Training Center in western Afghanistan. “It starts in Brooklyn, to the Bronx, to Queens and then back to Brooklyn. I’d be tearing that (expletive) up.”

Stars and Stripes-Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan (http://www.stripes.com/news/marines-try-to-make-the-most-of-thanksgiving-in-afghanistan-1.126457?localLinksEnabled=false)

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Many soldiers will not be home for Thanksgiving to enjoy with loved ones. God bless our soldiers.
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Title: Re: Marines try to make the most of Thanksgiving in Afghanistan
Post by: true_blood on November 25, 2010, 07:46:42 PM

Happy Thanksgiving to all the U.S. military.