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Sending greetings overseas is more complicated than ever
Serving overseas during the holidays is never easy. Even if the people are nice and everyone in the barracks is trying to make it homey, it's cold comfort when all someone wants is a simple slice of home. In a war zone -- where the people are not friendly and explicit displays of holiday cheer are forbidden by religious law -- the distance feels all the more like the other side of the world. .
Hurley man debunks Thanksgiving myths
HURLEY -- The Mayflower pilgrims who arrived at Cape Cod the winter of 1620 did not know the harvest festival they celebrated after their first season in Massachusetts would 200 years later be known as Thanksgiving, according to Gene Cisewski, Iron County Historical Society president and himself a Mayflower descendant. Cisewski has had his lineage certified as a direct descendant of seven different families who came to America on the Mayflower. That lineage goes through his maternal grandmother, the late Doris (Nagley) Monty of Ontonagon, a 1925 graduate of Hurley High School. This little-known fact was one of many Cisewski revealed at a program entitled "Myth-busting the First Thanksgiving" Saturday at the Iron County Historical Society Museum. In fact, the English Separatists who first traveled to Holland found financial backing from a group of London merchants they joined, referred to themselves as "the company," and were only once referred to as "pilgrims." It was in a brief passage by their leader, William Bradford, who kept a journal of their voyage.
Angels Prep 'Holidays for Heroes' Packages
A dedicated group of "angels" filled the Santa Clarita Community Center on Friday as local support group Prayer Angels for the Military conducted its annual "Holidays for Heroes" care package building event. Starting shortly after 10 a.m., Prayer Angels organizers joined nearly 100 community volunteers who donated supplies, wrote holiday cards, and packed and prepared some 450 care packages to be sent out to U.S. troops deployed in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Following an assembly line format, volunteers were divided into task-specific groups, with some asked to fold boxes and organize the selection of supplies - which included snacks and candy, cookies, beef and turkey jerky, toiletries and socks - while others went through the line of donated supplies and filled the shoebox-sized boxes with an assortment of goodies.
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