Archive photo of the day
Sgt. Santa Claus, 2001
Stars and Stripes
December 25, 2022
(Ivana Avramovic/Stars and Stripes)
Banovici, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dec. 25, 2001: Six-year-old Selma Mesic, a Muslim refugee living near Camp Comanche in Bosnia and Herzegovina receives Christmas gifts from Santa Claus, also known as Sgt. Troy Patterson of Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Brigade, on Christmas Day.