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Dec. 21, 2006 - Mitchell Bell spent last Christmas 7,000 miles from home, at an airbase in Iraq’s Anbar province. The Marine pilot did manage to stay in touch with his family, though, sending a DVD of himself reading Dr. Seuss’s “The Grinch” for his 2 ½-year-old daughter. Thanks to technology, his wife, Teresa, was able to ask the little girl, “Do you want me to read to you tonight, or Daddy?”
Merry Christmas to all our troops on home and foreign soil.


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posted at 13:48:40 on 12/21/06 - Category: Army

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