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Sailors wait to call home on Thanksgiving after their ship was delayed, changing everyone's plans.

After many months at sea it was a happy reunion on board the USS Caron for this soldier and his wife.

Every available chair was taken as over 150 laid-off employees of the Bunker Hill Company fill out unemployment insurance claims.

Faced with no job, Dave has hours of time on his hands everyday, much of which is spent drinking coffee at the United Auto Workers Union Hall. 'I think I would just dry up and die if it weren't for the Union,' Tierny said.

When the layoffs hit, it took everything we saved just to keep some of the bills paid, Dave said. Dave and his wife, Nancy, go through bills to see which must be paid and which they can let slide.

Dave worked at the General Motors Delco-Remy plant in Anderson, Indiana. When huge layoffs hit the plant, Dave lost his job and was forced to go to the unemployment office where he found no other jobs available.

Dave Tierny is a union man all the way. For the past 16 years he has worked on the line at General Motors.

Arden Anderson sits in a bar in Evanston, Wyoming. He's out of work and desperate in a boom town he hoped would make him good money. He came from Alaska looking for work on the oil rigs. Now he sleeps in his car and waits for a job.

Two twins get together at a reunion of their former high school in Hartford.

Cecil Soward puts air in the tires of a 50-ton truck on the construction site for a new highway. With tires priced from 3-15 thousand dollars, Cecil has a full-time job on site maintaining them.