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on this day . Many of us count our

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blessings and Simpson time thinking

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about what we're thankful for and for

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many families across the nation and

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right here in North Mississippi this

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altar with loved ones who were

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stationed thousands of miles away

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serving our country today . We are

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honored to be talking with major

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timothy Burton . Who's that ? The U . S .

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Marine Corps and stationed in Fallujah

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a lock . We're very proud to call major

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burden in North Mississippi in . He is

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from Belmont and he joins us now via

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satellite from Fallujah . First of all ,

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major happy thanksgiving and thanks for

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being with us . I know it's late there .

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It sure is . Thank you and thank you so

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much for this opportunity . Happy

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thanksgiving to you and thank you for

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bringing my family and get me giving me

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an opportunity to talk to them today .

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Absolutely major . We we do want to ask

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you with today being a day

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traditionally that you spend time with

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your family . How is it to be over

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there dealing with not having your

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family right next to you , not having

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that Turkey . Well it is uh not

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having them here today but I am

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thankful to have the opportunity to

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serve my country and to be over here

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standing up in this uh fight for what

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you know right and good in the world .

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Hopefully I can take some solace in the

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fact that we're doing good work over

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here to try to make the world safer in

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a better place Now .

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Your father told me earlier that day to

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day , you are working on a ground

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mission . You're working with Iraqi um

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teams teaching them security alerts ,

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is that right ? Pulse is a little bit

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about that . And how that interaction

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is , how that experience this day in

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and day out . Sure . Right now over

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here , you may have heard through some

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of the news that we're putting more

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emphasis on our military transition

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teams . Uh and what I do here is

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actually help manage that transition

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team program uh here in Iraq , we take

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uh marines and sailors and sold

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soldiers from the U . S . Army and

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embed them with the Iraqi security

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forces and they go out and train and

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mentor those Iraqi security forces .

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They take over responsibility for their

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own uh security in the country . We do

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that with the Iraqi army which I

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concentrate on uh the Iraqi police

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force in the Iraqi border forces as

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well . Now . Speaking about all

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the people that you work with each day ,

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as far as the morale of your fellow

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marines of the troops over there . How

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is everybody dealing with ? Uh Well ,

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so it's definitely a long fight . But

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when you see the marines over here ,

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you see that they've got a pretty good

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spirit . They take a lot of solace in

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the fact that they've got good leaders

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and they've also got a lot of marines

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around them who they know they can

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count on . So at the end of the day .

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Uh Yes , we're alone and away from our

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family . But we're over here with our

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family of marines as well and we count

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on each other to get through the day

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and speaking of your family major we've

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got a very special guest with us here

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at your dad Gary Burton and I have to

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tell you he is very proud of you , he's

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been dragging on you since I met him

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about 30 minutes ago and he'd like to

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actually talk to you right now . So I'm

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going to hand it over to your dad .

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Okay , Okay thank you

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get in , that is a little bit of Boris

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transition , good to see you .

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Good to see you . It's good to hear you

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got there . Well I got

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uh Greta and your sister marisa and

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papa joe is with us . He wants to come

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down and see the tv station and since

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that's his expertise , you know from

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years ago and then he wanted to uh

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everybody wanted to say it to you and

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everybody sends their love and uh if

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you know all the rest of us are our

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deer hunting and which is one of your

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passions and uh everybody's looking

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forward to you coming home in february

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hope and hopefully that will happen and

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uh I was really thinking about you a

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lot of effective , we think about a lot

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of effective when we're hunting over in

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here , you know that well that's what I

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was wondering if you'd actually make it

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down here giving , given that it is ,

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uh , Turkey Day and hunting season . Uh ,

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well , we always enjoy when your home ,

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this is one of our biggest time of year .

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And so what we wanted to come down and

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be able to see your face to face and uh ,

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talk to you and tell you what we're

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proud of . You were probably job you

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and all the marines were doing and we

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know y'all doing , uh , what , uh , you

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are trained to do and we're very , very

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proud of you and we certainly are son .

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Uh , 10 for that . I appreciate , I

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appreciate all that . Uh , appreciate

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you bringing everyone down there . I'd

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like to say hi to pop up papa joe .

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Especially , uh , for getting out and

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about . I hope he's having a good

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thanksgiving and I hope you all have a

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uh , good dinner . Like to say hi to uh ,

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rest and great as well . I hope y'all

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uh , y'all have a great thanksgiving .

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I'm sure Michelle and I wish I could be

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back there with you . Uh , I promise

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you as quick as I get back all , uh ,

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get on a plane and head out there and

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spend a little bit of time with

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everyone to make sure I'm there to , uh ,

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to hug your neck . Uh great , great .

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We appreciate it . We love you . But

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I love you all right now . Major before

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we go , One last , one last question .

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Major don't do anything special

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today . Well , we did , we

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had , uh we had the Secretary of the

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Navy come in and uh he had a uh he

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joined the thanksgiving worship service

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with us . Uh And then uh we got a great

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meal in the uh in the chow hall . They

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had turkey all cut up and ready to go .

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Uh and don't let anyone kids as far as

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the food goes over here , it's as good

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as uh as good as you can find anywhere .

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But it will never quite be uh

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thanksgiving dinner at granny , Betty's

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house . Uh Good news . Your dad just

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say it looks like they've been feeding

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him well over there so we're glad

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you're healthy . Uh And again we

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do what we do want to thank you for

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being with us and mr Burton we

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appreciate you being here . And of

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course major . Our thoughts and prayers

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are with you and with your fellow

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marines , everyone that you're working

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with over there . We wish you all the

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best and thanks for being with us today .

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Happy thanksgiving , Happy thanksgiving

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to you and thank you so much for this

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opportunity . It really is making it a

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happy thanksgiving to you