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From left, World War II veteran Angelo Basso, of Palmer Township, Pa. granddaughter Tammie Kelshaw, of Northampton, and brother World War II veteran Jack Basso, of Palmer Township, stand and listen during a Veterans Day ceremony at Upper Hackett Park in Easton, Pa on Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/The Express-Times, Matt Smith)

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A U.S. Marine salutes the colors during a wreath-laying ceremony at the American Cemetery and Memorial at suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines, as they pay tribute to U.S. veterans and their families on Veterans Day Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial contains the remains of WWII Americans who died in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma along with Philippine Scouts who served with the U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Philippine army Pfc. Enrico Disimulacion plays the Taps during wreath-laying ceremony at the American Cemetery and Memorial at suburban Taguig city, east of Manila, Philippines, to pay tribute to U.S. veterans and their families on Veterans Day Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial contains the remains of WWII Americans who died in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma along with Philippine Scouts who served with the U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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President Barack Obama walks in with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, before placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a VeteranÃs Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama walks in with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington, Commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, before placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Members of Battery A, 7th Battalion, 8th Artillery reading newspapers in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, April 29, 1970 (Official U.S. Army photo)

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Alyce Dixon, who served at a military post office in France during World War II, speaks with Kwame R. Brown (left), chairman of the D.C. Council, and Eleanor Holmes Norton (right), the city's delegate to Congress, during a rededication ceremony Thursday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Tom Rogan, from left, of Fayston, Vt., and Dr. Tom Brannon, of Nashville, Tenn., both Vietnam veterans from the 4th Cavalry Regiment 1st Infantry Division, salute the colors as the National Anthem is sung during a rededication ceremony following renovations of the District of Columbia WWI Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 10, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi, is wanted by the International Criminal Court, as well as by Libya's new leaders, who overthrew his father's regime. The younger Gadhafi fled the country. (Associated Press)

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While all three comics in Laughter Against the Machine — from left, Janine Brito, Nato Green and W. Kamau Bell — are "lefty, progressive people," their self-professed goal is to provoke (read: offend) audience members of every political persuasion. (Photo courtesy Laughter Against the Machine)

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Barham Salih, prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, says a democratic, federal Iraq "may well represent a very viable option for the Kurds of Iraq." (Associated Press)

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Munition crates are strewn about an unguarded storage facility in the desert, some 62 miles south of Sirte, Libya. (Associated Press)

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Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, grills U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (in foreground) on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' controversial gun-smuggling tactics during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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A wounded man is carried to emergency aid during a clash with Liberian police at opposition party headquarters in Monrovia on Monday. Violence broke out at the headquarters, and at least two people were killed, less than 24 hours before Liberia's presidential runoff, considered a test of the country's fragile peace after civil war. (Associated Press)

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Opposition party vice-presidential candidate George Weah (seated), a former soccer star, is fanned by a member of his entourage as he takes refuge in a nearby home Monday after Liberian police fired tear gas into opposition party headquarters in Monrovia. (Associated Press)

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Raymond "Boots" Riley of the Coup, a hip-hop group, has become a regular presence at the Occupy Oakland encampments, taking up bullhorns and staying until dawn even amid clashes with police. "I'm trying to make a soundtrack out there that rallies people around certain ideas about living in this system into motivation," he said. (Associated Press)

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Spc. Andres Ryan, a senior soloist in the U.S. Army Drill Team, from left, and Pfc. Shane Humphrey, also a member of the U.S. Army Drill Team, practice their performance with the New Guard America rifle exhibition drill team before auditioning for America's Got Talent. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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Members of the New Guard America rifle exhibition drill team, including Constantine Wilson, from left, Pfc. Shane Humphrey, a member of the U.S. Army Drill Team, Summer Ryan, Spc. Andres Ryan, a senior soloist in the U.S. Army Drill Team, John Pacer, 17, a JROTC member, and Abraham Robbins, practice their performance before auditioning for America's Got Talent. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)

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WikiLeaks hasn't been forgotten amid the pandemonium of Occupy protests. As people take to the streets to speak out against financial institutions, the anti-secrecy website is fighting a battle of its own against MasterCard, Visa and others that have blocked donations. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan girl who was wounded in a suicide bombing lies in a hospital bed in Baghlan, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Jawed Basharat)