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| A girl sobs while comforted by her grandmother moments before her father (background) hugging his wife departs for Afghanistan for a year. |
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| After months of searching in East Texas for debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, a relieved searcher displays a memento during a closing ceremony. |
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| An impoverished mother breast-feeds her baby in the bombed out structure she once called home in Managua, Nicaragua just after their civil war. |
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| A C-130 aircraft streaks by as an air force pilot waves from the top of an iceberg adjacent to a weather station located in the Arctic Circle, Greenland. |
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| Following tradition, one of many soldiers places American flags on the graves of service men and women at Arlington National Cemetery prior to Veteran’s Day. |
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| A memorial service commemorating the 1st anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident in the Nacogdoches, Texas, drew hundreds of people who searched for the orbiters’ debris in the forests of East Texas & Western Louisiana in 2003. |
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