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Troops man a machine gun nest at Wheeler Field, which adjoins Schofield Barracks in Honolulu, after the Japanese attack on the island of Oahu, Dec. 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

Harris Bircher, 92, was thrown from the U.S.S. West Virginia as it was struck by seven torpedoes and three bombs in the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. In the weeks after the attack, the Navy reported him missing and a funeral was held in his home town of Dubuque, Iowa. Bircher retired from the Navy after 20 years of service, settling down in California before moving several years ago to the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C., where he is seen on Nov. 17, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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A Japanese bomber on a run over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is shown during the surprise attack of Dec. 7, 1941. Black smoke rises from American ships in the harbor. Below is a U.S. Army air field. (AP Photo)

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This photograph, from a Japanese film later captured by American forces, is taken aboard the Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, just as a Nakajima "Kate" B-5N bomber is launching off deck for the second wave of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. (AP Photo)

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (right) comforts the family of slain military attache Joseph Alon on July 2, 1973. (Associated Press)

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Col. Joseph Alon (left) was an ace fighter pilot in Israel. He is shown here in 1969 with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (center) and Mordechai Hod, commander of the Israeli air force. (Alon family via Associated Press)

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Smoke and dust rises at the scene of a suicide bomb attack Tuesday that killed 56 during a Muharram procession outside the Abul Fazl shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan. "It was a very powerful blast. ... Everyone was crying, shouting," said Mahood Khan, who is in charge of the shrine near the presidential palace. "It is a disaster." (Associated Press)

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Hamas militant Fakhri Barghouti waves to the crowd after arriving in the West Bank city of Ramallah after his release in October. Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel in a swap for an Israeli soldier are racing to make up for lost time. Many of the 477 ex-inmates are getting married, building homes or enrolling in college. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian Muayad Abdel Samed, 50, works at the construction site of his house in the West Bank village of Anabta. Mr. Samed, who spent half his life behind bars for killing an Israeli border police officer, is building his house with an $8,000 government grant. (Associated Press)

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Russian Communist Party supporters hold flags with the party colors and emblem during a demonstration in Moscow on Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, to protest the official results of parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Afghan police officers stand guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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"North Korea's progress in developing the TD-2 shows its determination to achieve long-range ballistic missile. ... The TD-2 could reach at least portions of the United States," said James Clapper, director of national intelligence. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai shakes hands with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (center), while German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (right) stands next to them at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on Monday. (Associated Press)

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Christian contemporary singer Michael W. Smith performs at Sean Hannity's Holiday Concert Salute to the Troops fundraiser on Capitol Hill on Saturday night. (Trish Keene)

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A police officer detains an activist in St. Petersburg during a protest of reported ballot-stuffing. (Associated Press)

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A defused World War II bomb sits the Rhine River near Koblenz, Germany. The massive British bomb that triggered the evacuation of about half of the 107,000 residents of Germany's western city of Koblenz was defused Sunday, authorities said. (Associated Press)

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Sandbags frame a 1.8-ton World War II bomb in the Rhine near Koblenz, Germany, on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/dapd, Harald Tittel)

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Riot police move into an area around a downtown Portland, Ore., park before arresting several anti-Wall Street protesters on Saturday night, Dec. 3, 2011, after the demonstrators refused to vacate the park. (AP Photo/Portland Oregonian, Randy L. Rasmussen)

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Protesters carry symbolic coffins honoring those killed in recent clashes with security forces during a rally in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Islamists appear to have taken a strong majority of seats in the first round of Egypt's first parliamentary vote since Hosni Mubarak's ouster. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

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** FILE ** In this April 26, 2011, photo, U.S. Army soldiers walk through Al Faw palace in Camp Victory Baghdad, Iraq. Victory Base Complex, as it's formally called by the military, started life as a country club for the Baghdad elite under Saddam. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)