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U.S. President Barack Obama fills a bag with a Thanksgiving day pumpkin pie alongside first lady Michelle Obama (2nd R) and their daughter Malia (3rd R) during their visit to Martha's Table, a community-improvement organization for the underprivileged in Washington, November 25, 2009.

MANCHESTER – Last month Everett Lang received eight unexpected expressions of gratitude. They came in handwritten letters addressed to the 67-year-old Vietnam veteran's New Jersey home. And they came from 12- and 13-year-old New Hampshire children he had never met. The kids are seventh-graders at St. Joseph Regional Junior High School in Manchester. As Veterans Day approached, they wrote and mailed 800 letters to veterans, thanking them for their service to America. A retired Wall Street executive who's fighting cancer, Lang became emotional as he read one student's words to a reporter the week before Thanksgiving. The students' notes were...

Walter Reed, Week 241, 11/27/09 Thanksgiving – Thanking Our Brave Soldiers The Friday After Thanksgiving FRONT GATE NOTES November 27, 2009, Thanksgiving, No Bus and Patriotism Friday night after Thanksgiving is normally quiet with light traffic. Tonight was no different. Very windy, making the hi 40’s seem like the lo 30’s. Even so, eleven of us were in place during the evening. The wind was so stiff that our banners would have blown away, leaving us with signs and hand held flags. The war doesn’t stop though and two big ambulances raced down Georgia Ave and into Walter Reed to...