PATROLS AND TURKEY IN AFGHAN WAR ZONE -- BY DENIS D. GRAY, Army Times/AP

BARAKI-BARAK, Afghanistan — Thanksgiving Day for soldiers in this valley ringed by towering snowy peaks began with a six-mile slog to aid village schools without desks and windows, and ended with five, once scrawny local turkeys soldiers have been fattening up for the past month.

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