1BSTB Thanksgiving Day

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I’m PFC Shawnte Lonnette. Today was a really exciting day for the DFAC.  It’s Thanksgiving for the soldiers here in Korea and all I can say is that it is a blessing.  Everyone was coming up to us thanking us for our service and telling us how great the meal was.  I felt really honored to be cooking today just as any day but it felt extra special today.  A lot of my battle buddies came in and were down and out because they’d rather be home with their family but I had to remind them that they were with their new extended family and to be thankful for that.  Just knowing that there were once soldiers that fought in Iraq or Afghanistan on several holidays and some never made it back to their families made me appreciate being here in Korea with all my newfound friends. Well we’re still on standby to know if we won the DFAC competition, hopefully we did.

We have been running around for days on end and have been spending some long nights trying to make everything perfect.  Yeah, it got a little hectic and tempers went through the roof but we still maintained to put out a great feast. We did so good the three star general gave us a coin.  All in all the day was absolutely amazing and I’m thankful to be working with such great people whom I know have my back.  So I leave you with this, even though times get hard and you feel as though you’re not going to make it at times just think about the ones who have it worse than you and see that you can get through the tough times. Peace and Love.