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New Jersey military base is temporary home for Afghan refugees

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BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J. - Airman First Class Waverly Strong of the U.S. Air Force teaches English to Afghan refugees at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County, New Jersey.Liberty Village, as it is called on the military base, is now a temporary home for thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan."There are days when I teach more of how to get by when they leave here because I realize now they are not going back to their country, they're going to be going to different states in the U.S.," Strong said. "So I figure why not teach them something to help them adjust a little easier to American life and culture?"The first group of Afghan refugees to be airlifted to New Jersey arrived in late August.

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