Feast offers soldiers a holiday respite
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AL-TAJI CAMP, Iraq -- For American soldiers serving in the most dangerous place on earth, Thanksgiving brought gratitude for life's pleasures: an autumn leaf mailed from home, a love note in an e-mail inbox, and the taste of pumpkin pie.
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For relatives and friends of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" was the place to be.
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Adam Pultz places a turkey and a box containing food and other items in the back of Joan Findley's truck Monday. The Salt Lake Mission is giving food and clothes to those in need during the holiday season.  (c) 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City).
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President Bush was celebrating Thanksgiving at the Camp David presidential retreat with a small gathering of family and friends.
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KILLEEN, Texas -- Hollie Keahtigh had hoped until Thursday that her husband, an Army captain in Fort Hood's First Cavalry Division, would be home from Iraq to spend Christmas with her, their 5-year-old son, and 2-year-old daughter.
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NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters Life!) - The holidays are a time for fun, food, family, gifts -- and stress, with more women 1tending to suffer than men and turning to food, booze and the couch to get over the holidays.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.
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TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 25  -- The roaring bonfire licked the dark sky as Jennifer and Jeremiah Pray leaned closer to the pulsing warmth. Their faces glowing, their eyes bright, they relished their first Christmas Eve together in more than three years of marriage, not to mention the brief respite from the war going on around them.
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When Americans mail holiday greetings this month, Ed Asner hopes they'll remember U.S. soldiers serving overseas, especially in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Wrapped in a gossamer red sweater and wearing an inviting smile, Nigella Lawson epitomizes the holiday spirit on the cover of her new book, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life (Hyperion, &#36;35).
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Relatives of two soldiers who disappeared in Iraq during an insurgent attack comforted each other Thursday after the military confirmed two brutalized bodies found this week were the missing men.
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For the 19,000 soldiers of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, whose tanks and armored Bradley vehicles led the assault on Baghdad, Iraq, last year, being home for the holidays is a bittersweet prelude to a busy new year.
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US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld visited wounded soldiers and brought holiday greetings on Christmas Eve amid tight security at an air base in northern Iraq where an insurgent&#39;s
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By Jan A. Igoe, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  May 30--While Army Sgt. Melissa Dion was serving in Iraq last year, she still found a way to surprise her dad with a fabulous Christmas present. Dion chartered the Southern Exposure out of Georgetown for a Memorial Day weekend fishing trip.
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In this photo released by the White House, President Bush phones US troops from his ranch on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2004, in Crawford, Texas.
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HABBANIYA, Iraq -- As winter sets in, Iraqi families who fled the US-led attack on Fallujah for a lakeside resort upriver wish their holiday there would come to an end.
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Three weeks ago, the talk was of family reunions, cold beer and Hogmanay parties as the soldiers of the Black Watch turned their thoughts to going home for Christmas.