About 50 Marines from Camp Pendleton are spending Thanksgiving with Orange County families thanks to a longtime tradition.
The Marines will be heading in pairs to about two dozen homes across O.C. But before heading to their host families, the Marines got a private tour of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, the first time it’s ever opened on Thanksgiving.
“It’s awesome being here. I mean, otherwise we’d just be on base in the barracks,” one Marin told KNX News’ Nataly Tavidian. “We have to come out and see this awesome museum, hang out with these pretty cool families, and eat good food because we don’t really get to go home because I mean you could, but some of us don’t have enough money to get a plane ticket for Thanksgiving and then Christmas, so having the opportunity to come here and spend time with these people and just be around other civilians is really refreshing.”…