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Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Marine Cpl. Joe Coaxum, left, whispers with Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Daryl Web, right, as Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rolling Thunder bikers take their seats as the Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rolling Thunder bikers take their seats as the Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Steve Betts of Waldorf, Md., center, and other members of the Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter pauses for a moment of silence before starting a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Biker Rob Webster arrives to attend a Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Jim Shekleton of Waldorf, Md., right, watches as his wife Britney, center hugs their son Jason, 10, right, before the Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Bikers Jim Shekleton of Waldorf, Md., second from right, and his son Jason, 10, right, chats with family friend Maryland Boswell of Waldorf, Md., center, before the Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Two members of Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter hug as they walk into a general membership meeting to plan for their Memorial Day events at Harley Davidson's Ft. Washington store, Ft. Washington, Md., Saturday, May 12, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Marine Cpl. Joe Coaxum whispers something to Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Daryl Web as Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter holds a general membership meeting at the Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop in Fort Washington on May 12 to plan its Memorial Day weekend events. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Cornell "Smokey" Langford of Clinton stares out into the pre-dawn sky as he and other members of Rolling Thunder's Maryland chapter meet in the early-morning hours at the Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop in Fort Washington before heading to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington on May 13. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Brandon Lutzow of Waldorf, Md., helps scrub the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, along with other members of Rolling Thunder's Maryland Chapter 1 on May 13 as one way of honoring the sacrifices of those who died in the war. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Al Hodgson, a volunteer guide at the Willow Creek-China Flat Musuem, holds up a plaster cast of a Bigfoot imprint displayed at the museum's new "Bigfoot Wing" in Willow Creek, Calif., on June 5, 2000. (Associated Press)

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Maryland House Minority Leader Anthony J. O'Donnell says “this deal was cut” regarding a second special session for a Prince George's County casino proposal. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Lard covered shirts are strewn about as first year Naval Academy plebes finish the traditional Herndon Monument climb in two hours and ten minutes, Annapolis, Md., Tuesday, May 22, 2012. The tradition, dating back to 1940, is the culmination of the first year in the Naval Academy where the plebe class has to help each other climb the obelisk covered in lard, remove the "dixie cup" hat at the top and replace it with an upperclassman's hat. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** American pop singer and songwriter Lady Gaga poses May 19, 2012, before the media upon her arrival in a hotel in Manila's financial district of Makati, Philippines. (Associated Press)