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Sailors celebrate Thanksgiving with chicken wings, turkey, chocolate in Algonquin

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ALGONQUIN - During every day of his six-week boot camp assignment at Naval Station Great Lakes, Shane Skinner thought about three things: graduation, his girlfriend and chicken wings. The 24-year-old Navy recruit from Bolivar, New York, had that and more Thursday when he joined three dozen of his future shipmates at Algonquin's St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, where volunteers and the Knights of Columbus organized a free Thanksgiving feast for sailors from Naval Station Great Lakes.

St. Margaret Mary Church in Algonquin hosts sailors for Thanksgiving feast

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St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church member Ingrid Prigge of Algonquin hands out extra napkins to feasting Navy recruits at a Thanksgiving meal Thursday hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin. Naval Station Great Lakes seaman recruits Taylee Smullin of Boise, Idaho, and Briana Tucker of Little Rock, Ark., lead recruits through a line of Thanksgiving staples Thursday at a meal hosted by the Knights of Columbus at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Algonquin.