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Thanksgiving 2011 in pictures Obama pardons a turkey, volunteers serve Thanksgiving dinner, holiday travelers face crowds and more scenes from the holiday.
Nov. 24, 2011
Catholic University students, from left, Emily Weber, Maureen Brabec and Alex Mosko, all 21, share a Thanksgiving dinner at Curley Hall on Catholic's campus in Northeast Washington. The university held a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for about four dozen students and faculty members who didn't go away for the holidays.
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Nov. 24, 2011
J.J. Evans, age 3, keeps an eye on the dessert table during Thanksgiving dinner at Catholic Univeristy.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Catholic University students collectively laugh when asked, in a show of hands, how many students wanted leftovers to take home following the Thanksgiving dinner.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Abraham Lima carves a turkey while his son Nehemias Lima looks on in Rockville, Md.
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Abraham, Maria, Deborah, Bella, Nehemias and Abraham Lima, Jr. sit down to Thanksgiving dinner. Originally from El Salvador, they have embraced the holiday that brings family together.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Abraham Lima relaxes in his Rockville family room with two of his five children, Nehemias, 32, and Deborah, 20, on Thanksgiving Day. Lima is originally from El Salvador.
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Nov. 24, 2011
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), left, and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, meet active and retired service members after serving a Thanksgiving meal at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Golfers participate in the 29th annual Thanksgiving Day golf tournament in Concord, N.H. More than 100 players showed up at sunrise to play nine holes on the snow-covered course.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Detroit Lions fans celebrate Thanksgiving with a deep-fried turkey before the Lions' game with the Green Bay Packers in Detroit.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Occupy D.C. protesters queue up for Thanksgiving meals at McPherson Square in the District. The day before, Occupy protesters had flocked to a historic D.C. church for a Thanksgiving buffet and some robust words of support. Organizing the feast was Occupy Faith D.C., an interfaith coalition set up a month ago to give food, equipment and spiritual support to Occupy protesters.
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Nov. 24, 2011
People watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York's Times Square. It was the 85th Macy's parade, which debuted in 1924 as the Macy's Christmas Parade.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Spectators watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from behind police barricades in New York. A jetpack-wearing monkey and a freakish creation from filmmaker Tim Burton were two of the big new balloons that to make their inaugural appearances in front of millions of people at the parade.
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Nov. 24, 2011
The Hawaii All-State Marching Band make its way through Times Square during the 85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
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Nov. 24, 2011
A Kermit the Frog balloon floats down the west side of Central Park during the 85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
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Nov. 24, 2011
Thanksgiving dinner is served as U.S. troops celebrate at Bagram air base in Afghanistan.
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Nov. 24, 2011
U.S. Army soldiers serve Thanksgiving meals to their colleagues at Forward Operating Base Shank in eastern Afghanistan's Logar province.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Union Station in Washington is crowded with travelers on Wednesday afternoon.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Gate D in Union Station is crowded with travelers waiting for the 6:05 p.m. Northeast Regional train.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Travelers wait for their trains. The day before Thanksgiving is Amtrak’s busiest day of the year.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Union station is mobbed with holiday travelers.
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Nov. 23, 2011
President Obama watches daughter Sasha reach out to touch Liberty, the Minnesota turkey he pardoned Wednesday. At left is National Turkey Federation Chairman Richard Huisinga. At right is the president's other daughter, Malia.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Occupy protesters Owen Johnson, left, of Pownal, Vt.; Elliott Hartman Russell, center, of Northampton, Mass.; and Atom Jenkins of Arlington, Va., laugh while enjoying a Thanksgiving meal for the Occupy protesters at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Occupy protester Bo Han, left, of Atlanta has his plate filled with a holiday meal by volunteer Lynn Marshall.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Renee Montgomery serves up some cranberry sauce as hundreds of people gathered at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center to share in the 12th annual Safeway Feast of Sharing.
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Nov. 23, 2011
Deloris Mixon and James Burrell bow their heads in prayer during the Feast of Sharing meal in Washington.
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Nov. 19, 2011
Marines Matthew Jones, left, and Abraham Cepeda (holding his daughter Aubrey) load up on food at a pre-Thanksgiving pot-luck at Jones’s home in Quantico. The turkey was donated to the meal by the USO. The number of families served by the organization’s annual giveaway has risen from 250 in 2008 to an expected 1,400 this year.
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Nov. 12, 2011
Sofia Lankford, 2, of Aldie, Va., inspects the items in her family's Thanksgiving bag as military families pick up holiday bags at the USO's warehouse in Fort Belvoir. The Capital Area Food Bank and the USO say they have seen need among military families locally like never before.
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