Family Adopts Soldiers For Thanksgiving

MONUMENT – About 60 soldiers from Fort Carson are eating with Colorado families for Thanksgiving. Four Fort Carson soldiers were taken off base and welcomed into a home in Monument to have more of a family experience.

Watching football, sitting by a fire and being off base. These soldiers from New York, Philadelphia, Georgia and Florida were not with their families for Thanksgiving, but their adopted family. “I’m just ecstatic to not be on base, having to eat at the chow hall, and getting some good home cooking,” said Private First Class Jimmy Gasaway.

The family that took them in is war veteran Clyde Peek and his wife Ginny. Ginny cooked for 2 days and said she attempted to perfect her mom’s corn bread stuffing for these men. “We really don’t have a lot of family here. We’re just so delighted; we’ve been so pleased about this and so pleased to have these young men here,” said Ginny. Ginny said she looks forward to hosting more soldiers again next Thanksgiving.