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Dick Schleicher, second from right, with the Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church prepares his dove carrying an olive branch ready to march as the Palisades July 4th Parade gets ready to begin, Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Children ride scooters along parade vehicles as the Palisades July 4th Parade gets ready to begin, Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Children ride scooters along parade vehicles as the Palisades July 4th Parade gets ready to begin, Washington, D.C., Thursday, July 4, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi chant slogans against the military near Cairo University, where protesters have installed their camp in Giza, southwest of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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Then-Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Tuesday, July 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Maxim Shemetov, Pool) ** FILE **

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Egyptian army soldiers take their positions on top of their armored vehicle to guard the entrances of Tahrir square, in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. Egyptian military officials said gunmen killed at least five supporters of the former president when people tried to storm a military building in Cairo. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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An Egyptian medic supporter of ousted President Mohammed Morsi, works at a field hospital in Nassr City in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, July 8, 2013. Egyptian soldiers and police opened fire on supporters of the ousted president early Monday in violence that left dozens of people killed, including one officer, outside a military building in Cairo where demonstrators had been holding a sit-in, government officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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In a Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, file photo, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, left, talks with his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry while watching election results at a hotel in Boston, in Boston. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)