20171123 - Sailor Dinner (hrb)

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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media Great Lakes Naval Base Seaman Recruit Benson Cheek, of Athens, Ga. speaks to his parents before a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin, Ill. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. On his phone call, Cheek was just able to catch his grandmother's yearly prayer at the family dinner.

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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media Great Lakes Naval Base Seaman Recruits Taylee Smullin (left), of Boise, Idaho, and Briana Tucker, of Little Rock, Ark. lead recruits through a line of Thanksgiving staples at a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin, Ill. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.

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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media St. Margret Mary Catholic Church member Ingrid Prigge, of Algonquin, Ill. hands out extra napkins to feasting recruits at a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin, Ill. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.

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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media Great Lakes Naval Base Seaman Recruit Javier Lozano, of San Antonio, Texas, helps himself to a second plate at a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin, Ill. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.

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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media Great Lakes Naval Base Seaman Recruit Matthew Martinez, of Lancaster, Calif., speaks to his family, as fellow Seaman Recruit Ashanti Smith, of Washington, D.C., plays a piece during a bones game after a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin, Ill. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.

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Daryl Quitalig - For Shaw Media Great Lakes Naval Base Seaman Recruit Daniel Parsons, of Danville, Va., talks to his family before a Thanksgiving meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin, Ill. Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017.