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Christmas in Iraq

Dec-26-2005 » Filed Under: 172nd SBCT

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By MARGARET FRIEDENAUER, News-Miner

MOSUL, Iraq—It wasn’t a white Christmas, but there was just enough of a nip in the air to make it feel a little like it was Christmas Eve.

In this part of the world near where Christ was born, soldiers with the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team on Forward Operating Base Courage did the best they could to make it feel like Christmas this week.

At Camp Freedom Aid Station, the entire staff received presents from Maj. Julie Kullberg’s church group, and her grandmother knitted stockings for everyone. On Friday night, the aid station staff watched “A Christmas Story.” In the chow hall there was a life-size animated Santa Claus that belted out carols. Christmas cookies from church groups in Missouri were washed down with Welch’s Sparkling Grape Juice. [...]


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