Happy Thanksgiving from Afghanistan

To everyone back home, Happy Thanksgiving!

Wish you were home.Praying for your
safe homecoming

Well so much for the picture. I'll try again later.

Stay Safe my friend and Thank you for what your
doing.

Lets try this one.

Have a good and safe Thanksgiving!

Rick

Have a Happy Thanksgiving !!!

And Thank You for Your Service!

Tom

I agree and well said.

Thank you for your service! May you enjoy Thanksgiving and have a safe journey home.
Larry

Happy Thanksgiving to you and thank you for your
service. Ho many tractors do you figure you could
park in that plane?

My son's name is Kyle and he's currently in Kuwait ,
thanks to all of you and a safe return.

Hope that you and all your fellow soldiers have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Thank you for your service.

Stay safe.

KEH

Happy Thanksgiving to you and all over there. Stay
safe And thank you!

Same to you!

Do you get turkey and all the trimmings? I hope so.

And yes, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

James and I went to an air show many years ago. Marveled at the flying display by the fighters.

They had a cargo plane, like the one in your picture. Its just beyond belief that not only does it get off the ground, but it gets off the ground carrying TONS of cargo. Absolutely amazing.

Hope you get home safe and sound very soon.

THANK YOU for your service , have a great thanksgiving and stay safe ...

............. mark

Happy Thanksgiving to you and all those serving
with you.

Thank you for serving and please pass along the
gratitude to those serving with you.

Wishing you all a safe homecoming soon.

Happy Thanksgiving from NW Illinois. Thank you for your service to our country, I pray that God will watch over you all and bring you home safely. Chris

Thank you and your family for the sacrifices. Stay safe come home
and where ever you go remember you have a place at the head of
the table in my home.

God Bless You, be safe and hope you come home soon. Happy Thanksgiving from SE AZ.

Thank you Kyle, and the same to you. My family, friends, neighbors, our nation, and myself are very proud, thankful, and grateful to you.

True story: I ETS'd from the Army a few days before Thanksgiving 1985. Flew into Ft. Dix from Mannheim, Germany, out processed, flew into Chicago, caught a bus home to Indiana. My family knew that I was coming home, but not exactly when because I wanted to surprise them. It was very cold and we had a lot of snow, early...just a few days before Thanksgiving. I get to town, bus lets me off at the Holidy Inn, and I start calling Mom and step-dad, no answer. Brother, sisters, no one answers. I intended to surprise them, but they all surprised me and no one was home about 8:00 at night, so I picked up my duffle back and started hoofing it in the snow down the main drag into town from the interstate, wearing my dress greens and jump boots for the last time ever.

I pass a restaurant/bar called Gubi's that wasn't there when I left home, but was there now so I set my duffle bag down in the snow outside the door on the side and went in. Now Ronald Reagan was our president, and he was telling Gorbachev to "...tear down the wall...", the iron curtain around then West Germany, and at the same time I had been reading in the Army Times about the anti-GI, anti-military stuff going on back home here in America while I'm overseas. So, its cold out, my family isn't home anywhere, my duffle bag is outside in the snow, and I walk into this place that I've never seen before to get warm, and I'm not sure whether I'm going to get my brains beat in because I'm in uniform.

I walk in and take off my cap and stand there at the door looking around. Its a nice looking place packed full of people eating and drinking, and now most of them are looking at me. Is one of them going to take a run at me? At the closet table was an elderly couple then, probably passed on by now. He looks at me, sets his flatwhere down, wipes his hands and gets up. His wife sat her flatwhere down and sat looking at me. He takes a few steps over to me, looks me in the eye, reaches out to shake my hand,, and thanks me, and then goes back to their table, sits down and picks up his flatware and starts eating. She gives me a wink, picks up her flatware and continues her dinner as well.

I looked around at all of the faces looking at me, some of them I had known in years past, and made my way to the bar, and the owner, Craig Gubi told one of the bartenderess' to get me a beer. He and I talked as I drank my beer, I told him what had happened, and asked if I could bring my duffle bag in, which he did and sat it behind the bar, and I asked if I could use the phone to try my family again, which he let me. I called home to my parents, and one of my sisters answered. Now my parents were home, and my brother and all of my sisters were over there.

"I'm home, I'm here in town" I told her. I heard her tell them, heard a cheer, they all faught over the phone asking me where I was, but I wouldn't tell them, but told them that I would be home soon. After I finished my beer, Craig had one of the bartenderess', Dawn, drive me and my duffle bag home.

That was the best Thanksgiving that I ever had. Till this very day, if and when I see one of our brave soldiers in uniform, I don't dare hesitate to walk over and reach out a hand to shake, and thank him, her, them just like that elderly gentleman did me. It made and makes a difference. You make the difference. God bless each and everyone of you, protect, watch over, and guide you.

Kyle...thank you so very much, and happy Thanksgiving to you and all of your fellow soldiers. God bless you from the bottom of my, our hearts.

Mark

Kyle,
Happy Thanksgiving from a neighboring mountaineer
in WV, God bless and protect you and all service
people