May Your Next Thanksgiving be at Home

JP5 and cranberry sauce...

My last Thanksgiving away from home was also my last Thanksgiving on active duty; Thanksgiving of 2008 in Kabul.

The German run DFAC did their best, but Thanksgiving is not a NATO holiday, so we Americans did our best … even putting up with the Canadians reminding us, “We have a Thanksgiving too!”

OK.

Nothing beats a Thanksgiving at sea, though. From small ships to the big CVNs, I never knew a ship that did not give 110% in the galley. It was still a workday…but no one went hungry.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Few nations, if any, have been as blessed as ours. Ponder that, and make it better for the next generation.

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