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A balloon and marching band make its way down the
Benjamin Franklin Parkway during a Thanksgiving day parade in
Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
(Matt
Rourke - AP)
A balloon make its way down
the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in view of City Hall during a
Thanksgiving day parade in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009.
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Matt Rourke -
AP)
People dressed as pilgrims
march during a Thanksgiving day parade in Philadelphia, Thursday,
Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Matt Rourke -
AP)
The Kermit the Frog balloon
floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
(Jeff
Christensen - AP)
The Buzz Lightyear balloon
floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
(Jeff Christensen
- AP)
The Kermit the Frog and the
Energizer Bunny floats are guided across Central Park South during
the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 in New
York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Spiderman float is
guided across Central Park South during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank
Franklin II) (Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Pikachu float is guided
across Central Park South during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 in New York. For the first time in its more
than 80-year history, the parade route is bypassing Broadway, which
cuts a diagonal slice through Manhattan, as it makes its way south
from the Upper West Side to the finish at Macy's flagship store in
Herald Square. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Buzz Lightyear float is
guided across Central Park South during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day
Parade Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 in New York. AP Photo/Frank Franklin
II) (Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Smurf float is guided
across Central Park South during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
(Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Spongebob Squarepants
float is guided across Central Park South during the Macy's
Thanksgiving Day Parade Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 in New York. (AP
Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Dora the Explorer float
is guided across Central Park South during the Macy's Thanksgiving
Day Parade Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Frank
Franklin II) (Frank Franklin Ii -
AP)
The Abby Cadabby balloon
floats through Times Square during Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade
in New York, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
(Jeff Christensen -
AP)
The Shrek float is inflated
in New York on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 in preparation for the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
(Frank
Franklin Ii - AP)
Cpl. Delio Lazoreyes from
Los Angeles, a mechanic assigned to the Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry
Squadron checks on his smoked turkeys as he helps prepare
Thanksgiving dinner at the Joint Combat Operations Post in the town
of Baraki Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan Thursday Nov.
26, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) (Dario Lopez-mills -
AP)
Troops belonging to the
Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron stand in line at the mess hall to
get their Thanksgiving dinner at the Joint Combat Operations Post
in the town of Baraki-Barak district, Logar province, Afghanistan
Thursday Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
(Dario Lopez-mills -
AP)
Renata Baca, left, and her
husband, Harold, of Santa Fe, N.M., wear turkey hats to mark the
Thanksgiving Day holiday as they wait for the start of an NFL
football game between the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos in
Denver on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
(David
Zalubowski -
AP)
Americans
give thanks, see parades, feast in space
By DEEPTI
HAJELAThe Associated Press
Thursday, November 26, 2009; 9:54 PM
Thursday, November 26, 2009; 9:54 PM
美国人献上感恩，观看游行，举行盛大庆祝活动
NEW YORK --
Giant balloons, floats, marching bands and clowns with confetti
brought smiles to hundreds of thousands of revelers eager to catch
a glimpse of a parade as steeped in Thanksgiving Day tradition as
turkey and pumpkin pie.
Crowds six to
seven people deep lined the streets of Manhattan on Thursday for
the 83rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as merrymakers
gathered nationwide for massive parades in cities such as Detroit
and Philadelphia.
Soldiers in
war zones received phone calls of appreciation from President
Barack Obama, while astronauts hovering above the Earth's surface
feasted on turkey smuggled aboard the space shuttle
Atlantis.
In New York
City, Miss America Katie Stam waved to crowds from a Statue of
Liberty float she shared with Meb Keflezighi, the first American in
27 years to win the New York City
Marathon.
Shailesh
Dighe and his family came to the fabled parade to snap pictures of
celebrities including rapper Jay Sean and singer-actress Keke
Palmer. Despite the crowds, Dighe said the parade is "totally worth
it."
"When you
watch it on TV, you don't get that feeling," said Dighe, who splits
his time between Manhattan and Princeton,
N.J.
For the first
time, the parade route bypassed Broadway, which cuts a diagonal
slice through Manhattan, as it made its way south from the Upper
West Side to the finish at Macy's flagship store in Herald
Square.
The new route
traverses the grid of the city's streets and avenues, includes
turns around five corners, and is slightly longer than in previous
years - 2.65 miles compared with 2.5
miles.
Johanna
Castillo, 38, of Guttenberg, N.J., said the new route seemed to
better accommodate the crowds.
"I was very
blessed to get here at the time I did and find a spot" a half-hour
before parade time, said Castillo, who arrived with her two
children.
Maryann
Alonzo, 48, of Queens, N.Y., has been coming to the parade since
she was a baby. She showed up Thursday with her daughter and
friends to cheer on her father, who's been performing in the parade
for 25 years as a clown.
"This is our
Thanksgiving," Alonzo said. "More than the
food."
Celebrity
entertainment included Italian tenor Andrea Boccelli, comedian
Jimmy Fallon, former "American Idol" star Katharine McPhee and
singers Gloria Gaynor and Carly Simon.
Elsewhere,
tens of thousands gathered in the streets of downtown Detroit for
the 83rd annual America's Thanksgiving Parade. The country's
longest-run Thanksgiving Day parade was held in Philadelphia for
its 90th year.
In Detroit,
where the September unemployment rate was 17.3 percent, parade
organizers set up three locations where revelers could drop off
donations of canned food for the area food
bank.
Eugene
Peterson, 35, an unemployed construction worker from Detroit, said
he had plenty to be thankful for.
"I'm thankful
we have a president who understands we're going through a hard
time," Peterson said. "I'm thankful they extended unemployment
(benefits) because there ain't no jobs around here. It's kind of
like government showing yeah, they
care."
Aboard
Atlantis, astronauts expecting to give thanks with pantry leftovers
were surprised by turkey dinners with candied yams, freeze-dried
cornbread stuffing and green beans - just add water. NASA suspected
the station's new skipper was responsible for the Thanksgiving
feast.
Obama enjoyed
a quiet holiday at the White House with his family and telephoned
10 members of the U.S. military stationed in war zones to thank
them for their service.
As daylight
faded in Afghanistan, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to
tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys the unit itself had fattened and to
give thanks for having survived a year of
combat.
Dense fog
delayed some flights Thursday for Thanksgiving travelers headed to
the Washington and Baltimore areas.
The Federal
Aviation Administration says the fog prompted a ground stop for
flights arriving Thursday morning at all three Washington-area
airports. Departing flights were apparently not affected. The FAA
lifted its ground stop by 10:30 a.m.
---
Associated Press writers Jim
Irwin in Detroit and Denis D. Gray in Baraki-Barak, Afghanistan,
and AP Aerospace Writer Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral, Fla.,
contributed to this
report.
(This version
CORRECTS that Keflezighi is the first American in 27 years to win
the New York City Marathon.)
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