{"id":35298,"date":"2024-11-29T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35298"},"modified":"2024-11-29T03:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T09:43:32","slug":"biden-holds-thanksgiving-calls-with-members-of-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=35298","title":{"rendered":"Biden holds Thanksgiving calls with members of US military"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>held Thanksgiving calls with members of the U.S. military, according to the White House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden, alongside his wife, first lady Jill Biden,<\/u><\/a> spoke with units from each branch of the U.S. military stationed around the world. They thanked the armed forces and their family members for their service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commander in chief talked with soldiers in the Guam National Guard, members of the Marine Corps and the crew of USS Jason Dunham, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. He also spoke with the Air Force\u2019s 430th Expeditionary Electronic Combat Squadron, U.S. Space Force service members in Cyprus and the Coast Guard\u2019s crew on Charles Moulthrope, a cutter stationed in Bahrain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden expressed gratitude to his supporters on Thursday in his final Thanksgiving message as president. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith hearts full of gratitude: Happy Thanksgiving, America,\u201d Biden wrote Thursday on the social platform X<\/u><\/a>. \u201cJill and I are so grateful for the trust you\u2019ve placed in us these past four years \u2014 serving you has been the honor of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The holiday season at the White House kicked off with the annual turkey pardoning ceremony, with Biden pardoning turkeys<\/u><\/a> Peach and Blossom on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis event marks the official start of the holiday season here is Washington. It\u2019s also my last time to speak here as your president during this season and give thanks and gratitude,\u201d Biden said. \u201cSo let me say to you \u2014 it\u2019s been the honor of my life, I am forever thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his visit to a fire department in Nantucket, Mass., on Thursday, the commander in chief said he was also grateful<\/u><\/a> for a \u201cpeaceful transition\u201d of power, expressing gratitude to \u201cmy family, the peaceful transition of the presidency, and I\u2019m thankful by the grace of God we were able to make more progress in the Middle East, I\u2019m really thankful for being able to get the first peace done in Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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President Biden\u2002held Thanksgiving calls with members of the U.S. military, according to the White House.  Biden, alongside his wife, first lady Jill Biden, spoke with units from each branch of the U.S. military stationed around the world. They thanked the armed forces and their family members for their service.  The commander in chief talked with soldiers in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":35299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28552,1808,31402,2771,31403],"class_list":["post-35298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-called","tag-held","tag-members-of-the-u-s-military","tag-president-biden","tag-talked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35300,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35298\/revisions\/35300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}