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A University of Missouri-Columbia journalism student writes of her personal experience at the National Thanksgiving Turkey ceremony Monday in Washington, D.C.
Turkeys Liberty and Bell have new appreciation for the phrase, "Let freedom ring."
He also noted that the presentation of a National Thanksgiving Turkey to the White House has been a tradition for more than seven decades.
The two turkey candidates, officially named Liberty and Bell, which will be pardoned by President Biden for the National Thanksgiving Turkey tradition, were presented at press conference in D.C. a day before the ceremony.
Liberty and Bell are ready for their presidential pardons. The two Thanksgiving turkeys were due at the White House on Monday to play their part in what has become an annual holiday tradition: a president sparing them from becoming someone's dinner. “We think that’s a great way to kick off the holiday season and really, really a fun honor,” Steve Lykken, chairman of the National Turkey Federation and president of the Jennie-O Turkey Store, said in an interview with The Associated Press.