Thanksgiving for the troops

U.S. soldiers queue in the canteen as they wait to be served an early Thanksgiving dinner at the Camp Victory complex in Baghdad, on Nov. 20, 2011. The official Thanksgiving holiday in the United States is later this week, but the last "dining facility," or DFAC, at the sprawling Victory Base Complex on Baghdad's outskirts was preparing to close, as U.S. forces prepare to depart.

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