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hello

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i'm butch wilmore and i am the commander

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of expedition 42 aboard the

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international space station and i

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thought i'd take the opportunity just to

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share a few thoughts about thanksgiving

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this holiday that's coming up in just a

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few days

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and for me i i think me and my family

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the first thing we think of when we

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think of thanksgiving is of course going

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all the way back to those early settlers

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when they endured some really rough

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times crossing the ocean and getting

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started in an unknown land an unknown

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area and you know they paused and they

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thank god for what he had provided for

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them up to that point and that's kind of

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the genesis of this holiday that we

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share today so that's the first thing i

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think about and i think about um

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being thankful as well in that same

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fashion there's there's so much we have

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to be thankful for in this nation

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freedom uh of course being the most

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obvious one i'm thankful for people

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that get up

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in the morning

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and they go to do their job and their

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jobs

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and tell things that means that they may

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not come back and i'm talking

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specifically about our military people

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around the globe that are doing things

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day in and day out

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that make a difference for freedom and

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like i said they get up in the morning

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they know their task that's ahead of

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them and they realize there's a chance

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they may not return

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and they go anyway

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and i'm thankful for those people i'm

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thankful for those people i'm thankful

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for their families that sacrifice much

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for the freedom we have to have a

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holiday like thanksgiving

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um

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personally we sit around the table at my

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home and we kind of go around the table

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we talk about being thankful and what

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we're thankful for and recognize the

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holiday the purpose for what it's for

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what it's about

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and of course

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thanksgiving is always about food as

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well and we share uh special meals and

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and we have plans at least i do for when

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uh when my crew mates are here in just a

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couple of days this is smoked turkey so

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i'm gonna have some smoked turkey

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this here is uh cornbread dressing

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rehear hydrate that that's gonna be

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mighty tasty

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in the morning i'll be thankful in the

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morning for breakfast too this is grits

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and butter you don't get no better than

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grits and butter i can't get enough of

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that up here it's good stuff and of

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course for dessert

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you got to have cran apples on

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thanksgiving so a little i mean sorry

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cranberry so i got a little cranberry uh

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pie here so that'll be good as well

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and of course i'm from tennessee so i

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grew up drinking sweet tea so i've got a

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little sweet tea as well so we're gonna

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have all of that uh up here and try to

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share in the in the spirit of the season

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and uh as we go forward i look back at

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the two months that i've been here and

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the things that i've had the opportunity

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to experience

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and and the people from from the ground

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that i've worked with uh from afar um

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that are you know processing experiments

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doing all the science that we are really

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operators for up here i'm thankful for

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them and the efforts that they're doing

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for the benefit of mankind and looking

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back at the last two months it's been a

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busy couple of months but it's been very

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very rewarding and hopefully very

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rewarding for many people back there as

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well and we look forward to doing the

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same during the rest of expedition 42

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which is still got about three and a

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half months to go with many many uh

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science projects and payloads ahead of

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us uh several spacewalks planned uh some

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arm operations many things though

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running the whole gamut so it's a it's

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an exciting time and a time to be

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thankful for being here and and one

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other thing before i close you know you

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think about space play at least i did

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when i was a kid and

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the thing they think about is being

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weightless and the opportunity to just

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float

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effortlessly you know i can i can do a

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uh i can do a

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my bat imitation so i can hang from the

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ceiling like a bat and

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i'm thankful for these type of things

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that you dream about literally dream

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about and now to have the opportunity to

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take part in sharing it

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is special and amazing and i'm thankful

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for that so with that

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i say to all of you there happy