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Retired Army Military Intelligence Officer Angelee Andoe of Lorton, Va., sits with her service dog, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a golden retriever as they get ready to march with a group of Hero Dogs in the National Memorial Day Parade along Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C., Monday, May 26, 2014. Andoe, who suffers from PTSD, is helped by F.D.R. who is given to her by Hero Dogs, a non-profit which helps provide improved quality of life to Veterans with disabilities by raising, training, and placing service dogs with Veterans who have served honorably in the United States Armed Services. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Police officers stand guard at the entrance of the Granja Comary training center, during a teachers's protest in front of where the Brazilian national soccer team will train and reside during the World Cup, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, May 26, 2014. Demonstrators are protesting against the money being spent by the government on the World Cup. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

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From left-right, Sarah Cato, Susan LaGrone, Dorothy Brown and John E. LaGrone, members of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, read a list of 173 names of former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War during a Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and will be honored with a plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)

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Edwina W. Lindsey, a member of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, looks at graveside marker at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. Nearly 175 former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War but were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery were honored on Memorial Day. A plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry will be placed graveside. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)

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Edwina W. Lindsey, a member of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, reads some of the 173 names of former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War during a Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and will be honored with a plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)

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Sarah Cato, left, Dorothy Brown, center, and John E. LaGrone, right, members of the St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society, read a list of 173 names of former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War during a Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and will be honored with a plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)

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Retired Army Military Intelligence Officer Angelee Andoe of Lorton, Va., sits with her service dog, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a golden retriever as they get ready to march with a group of Hero Dogs in the National Memorial Day Parade along Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C., Monday, May 26, 2014. Andoe, who suffers from PTSD, is helped by F.D.R. who is given to her by Hero Dogs, a nonprofit which helps provide improved quality of life to veterans with disabilities. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Retired Army Military Intelligence Officer Angelee Andoe of Lorton, Va., sits with her service dog, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a golden retriever as they get ready to march with a group of Hero Dogs in the National Memorial Day Parade along Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C., Monday, May 26, 2014. Andoe, who suffers from PTSD, is helped by F.D.R. who is given to her by Hero Dogs, a nonprofit which helps provide improved quality of life to veterans with disabilities. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Retired Army Military Intelligence Officer Angelee Andoe of Lorton, Va., sits with her service dog, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a golden retriever as they get ready to march with a group of Hero Dogs in the National Memorial Day Parade along Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C., Monday, May 26, 2014. Andoe, who suffers from PTSD, is helped by F.D.R. who is given to her by Hero Dogs, a non-profit which helps provide improved quality of life to Veterans with disabilities by raising, training, and placing service dogs with Veterans who have served honorably in the United States Armed Services. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Retired Army Military Intelligence Officer Angelee Andoe of Lorton, Va., sits with her service dog, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a golden retriever as they get ready to march with a group of Hero Dogs in the National Memorial Day Parade along Constitution Ave., Washington, D.C., Monday, May 26, 2014. Andoe, who suffers from PTSD, is helped by F.D.R. who is given to her by Hero Dogs, a non-profit which helps provide improved quality of life to Veterans with disabilities by raising, training, and placing service dogs with Veterans who have served honorably in the United States Armed Services. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)