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The New York Times | Thanksgiving at War, What Thanksgiving Looks Like in a War Zone
What’s it like to celebrate the holiday in a conflict zone? We asked those who were deployed as part of the global war on terror.
This year marks the 19th Thanksgiving since the beginning of the wars, occupations, operations and deployments that together form what the Pentagon calls the global war on terrorism. Across all this time and terrain, a few million American service members, and those who labored beside them, have accumulated vast and varied observances of a quintessential American holiday spent at war. |
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