Thanksgiving For US Troops Stationed In Afghanistan

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November 28, 2013

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.

Guest

Sean Carberry, Kabul correspondent for NPR. He tweets @frankentele.

This segment aired on November 28, 2013.