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Article: CHRISTMAS DINNER AT CAMP RAMADI
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- New Orleans Magazine
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- February 1, 2009
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Ed. Note: Baghdad Dispatch is written by two female Marines with local connections: Marine Capt. Mary Noyes, an attorney (right); and Marine Maj. Meredith Brown, an Iraqi Women's Engagement officer (left). Their respective columns will appear in alternate montlis. Noyes moved to New Orleans in 2006: Brown is a native of Marrero.
As we approached Christmas in Ramadi, my thoughts turned to the holiday and culinary traditions that I was missing. My husband and young son are home baking cookies, butter tarts and mincemeat tarts. They have put up the Christmas tree and hung the wreath on the door and the stockings by the fireplace. Gifts have been purchased, wrapped and placed under the tree. My ...