Happy Independence Week from Our Troops Overseas

“Right this minute, there are more than 400,000 men and women in uniform wearing the American flag on foreign soil, spread across more than 150 countries. So this week, we’re going to air shout-outs from some of those troops back to their families. Hopefully it’ll refresh our sense of the value of the freedoms we hold dear.” —Chuck Holton

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image is of an unidentified U.S. soldier patrols next to a U.S. flag on a military ship docked in Manama, Bahrain. (AP Photo / Hasan Jamali)

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