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well the holidays are a difficult time

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for many people and no one knows that

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better than the brave men and women

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stationed overseas but we have a

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special treat joining us . Today is

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sergeant first class Hamas Sanchez

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originally from Lake Orient currently

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stationed in Kabul Afghanistan . Hi ,

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how are you ? I understand your

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nickname is T . J . I'll call you T . J .

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First . How you doing ? That's that's

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fine Robbie . Thank you . And happy

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holidays . Okay , can you tell us what

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you will be doing on christmas day

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on christmas day , I will probably be

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working in my office . Um We work seven

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days a week here so I'll be tapping

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away at my computer . Okay , what do

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you have some presents to open those ?

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Good . I was one another having a full

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spread . Mm I'm

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sorry go ahead and answer . There's a

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delay here and we're not used to that .

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Go ahead and answer . Yeah . As I do

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have some packages open and you asked

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about the meal that will be eating here

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and it's going to be a full scratch

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just as fine as any christmas dinner

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could be . That's great . So all the

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christmas packages arrived in time and

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I'm sure that you want to say hi to

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your family here in the Detroit area .

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So go ahead and do that too .

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Absolutely . My mother and father linda

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and martin Vancouver who resigned

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oxford . Happy holidays and I love you .

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The rest of my family who are scattered

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out local in the area . I have my

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brother todd and craig . My brother

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Mark who is living with his wife and

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charlotte north Carolina . My sister

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Dawn and her family living down in san

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Antonio texas . Uh I'd also like to

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wish a happy holidays to my girlfriend

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Isabella who lives down in South Bend ,

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works at charlie's restaurant there and

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as well as my best friend Rich Visa and

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his wife Sharon and their family like

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to wish them a happy holidays along

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with the rest of my friends and the

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graduating class of 1987 from lake or

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in high school wow , I think you have

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everybody covered and you know that we

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all wish you a happy holiday as well .

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Can you tell us what the weather is

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going to be like ? There is , is your

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snow , is it warm ? What kind of

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weather will you have on christmas day

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right now says rain , but it's probably

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going to be snow . The temperature has

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been varying probably upper thirties

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and dropping down into the low twenties

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at night right now , the weather

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actually , if you look at the extended

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forecast isn't too much different than

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the Detroit weather , just a few

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degrees cooler . Well you know we are

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all thinking about you and we certainly

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wish you a merry christmas and and all

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of your disclosures that you're working

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with and even though you have to work

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christmas day , we hope you have a

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happy holiday . Thank you

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very much Robbie and I wish you a happy

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holiday as well