Veterans’ Thanksgiving memories

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Brandon Davis of San Mateo, California, tells us how his Peshmerga interpreter helped him buy two turkeys in a village in northern Iraq to make his Thanksgiving dinner complete. Also, Sgt. Ron Huff, who lives in Brownsville, Texas, tells us about a Thanksgiving celebration in Qatar in 2002. 

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