Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni residents pose for a group photo with Japanese locals during a visit to Kinjuen Nursing Home with the MCAS Iwakuni Cultural Adaptation Program at Iwakuni City, Japan, July 7, 2017. The nursing home invited Americans from the air station to celebrate Tanabata, also known as the star festival. Participants in the event enjoyed traditional foods and other activities, like somen nagashi, or sliding somen noodles, and tying their wish to a bamboo branch. ( Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Gabriela Garcia-Herrera)

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