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In this Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015, file photo, travelers wait in a security line at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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In this March 16, 2015 photo, retired U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Marshall Powell drinks coffee in his kitchen in Crescent, Okla., while discussing his condition known as "moral injury" after serving as a military nurse in Iraq and Afghanistan. Psychiatrists who have treated moral injury say it has contributed to the suicide rate among veterans, who account for 1 out of every 5 suicides in the U.S. They describe a danger in ignoring it because its treatment is distinct from that of PTSD. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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FILE - In this Nov. 21, 2013, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, dawn arrives at the now closed Camp X-Ray, which was used as the first detention facility for al-Qaida and Taliban militants who were captured after the Sept. 11 attacks at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The Defense Department is taking another look at the military prison in Kansas and the Navy Brig in South Carolina as it evaluates potential U.S. facilities to house detainees from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, part of the Obama administration’s controversial push to close the detention center. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a statement to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II during a press conference at his official residence in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Abe has expressed "profound grief" for all who perished in World War II in a statement marking the 70th anniversary of the country's surrender. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras listens during a parliamentary session in Athens on Aug. 14, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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In this Aug. 13, 2015 photo, a sandal lies among other debris washed ashore on the Indian Ocean beach in Uswetakeiyawa, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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National Edition Opinion cover for August 14, 2015 - World War II ended 70 years ago (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)
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The 624-acre Arlington National Cemetery has been active since the Civil War but will run out of grave sites by 2025. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the horrific events forcing Japan to surrender in World War II by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Former Army Pvt. Bradley "Chelsea" Manning would be more welcome at the transgender-only VA clinic in Cleveland than others who have served their country. (AP Photo/U.S. Army, File)
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People evacuate the body of a victim killed from a bombing in Jameela market in the Iraqi capital's crowded Sadr City neighborhood Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in the early morning hours on Thursday, killing at least 62 people, police officials said. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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F-16 Fighting Falcon - 39th Air Base Wing
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This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), now called the Islamic State group, marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)
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FILE - In this June 23, 2014, file photo, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. An online image released Wednesday purported to show the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt had beheaded a Croatian hostage. (AP Photo/File)
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Demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they wave the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad on June 16, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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FILE - In an Aug. 25, 2012 file photo, Lt. Gen. Babacar Gaye, the head of the failed United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria, drags his luggage as he departs his residence at the Dama Rose hotel in Damascus, Syria. Gaye, the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, resigned Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at the request of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, over the force's handling of a series of sexual and other misconduct allegations. Ban Ki-moon has called a special session of the U.N. Security Council for Thursday over the issue of sexual abuse allegations that has rocked the world body. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi, File)
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On the other end of the spectrum are hand cannons. Check out our gallery of the most powerful handguns in the world here.
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In this June 7, 2015 photo, a U.S. Army helicopter UH-60 flies during a Japan-U.S. joint disaster prevention drill in Kochi, western Japan. A U.S. Army helicopter of the same type crashed off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa on Wednesday, Aug. 12, injuring several people aboard the aircraft, officials said. (Yuta Omori/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Shiite rebels known as Houthis holds their weapons during a rally against Saudi-led airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on Aug. 11, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**
