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Thanksgiving For US Troops Stationed In Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers pray before eating a Thanksgiving meal at a dining hall at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. (Musadeq Sadeq/AP)
U.S. soldiers pray before eating a Thanksgiving meal at a dining hall at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. (Musadeq Sadeq/AP)

There are still about 47,000 American forces in Afghanistan.

NPR’s Sean Carberry is in Kabul and joins Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti to share the voices of some American soldiers there, as they spend Thanksgiving away from their families.

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