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In this Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo, local militia group fighters walk past a building torched by Taliban fighters at Talawka village in Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Fighting has been raging in Kunduz for more than a month. Pushed back by army reinforcements that arrived days after the assault began, insurgents now occupy villages in Gor Tepa, 15 kilometers (12 miles) from the provincial capital, also called Kunduz. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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National Edition News cover for May 26, 2015 - Israel keeps women from war’s front lines: An Israeli woman soldier prepares for a military training session near Jerusalem, Feb. 20, 2007. The past ten years have seen an important shift in the way the Israeli army views its female conscripts, allowing them out of the clerical or support jobs to which they were traditionally confined and making room for them on the battlefield. But the revolution has its critics. Many in the army say inserting women into combat units causes damage that Israel's military can little afford. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Tonya Smith visits the grave of her grandfather, Air Force veteran Tom Logsdon, at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery in Dixon, Calif., Monday May 25, 2015. Americans observe Memorial Day to remember the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
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The image of the gun-toting Israeli female warrior is widely seen as the prototype of a gender-blind military. Reality is different. The Israeli Ynet news service last week reported that the Israel Defense Forces studied but rejected the suggestion of women in tanks. (Associated Press)
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A woman who fled Ramadi holds a child in a camp in the town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah, Iraq, on Friday. (Associated Press)
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Section 60, where many of the soldiers who died in Iraq and Afghanistan are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Members of the Sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry reenactors group fire a 21-gun salute during a Memorial Day ceremony to honor soldiers who died in the Civil War, Monday, May 25, 2015, at Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati. The cemetery is the final resting place of thousands of Civil War soldiers, both Union and Confederate. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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President Obama, accompanied by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, left, commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington, lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, with the aid of Sgt. 1st Class John C. Wirth, on Memorial Day, Monday, May 25, 2015, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Local residents and Sunni tribal fighters welcome newly arriving Iraqi Shiite Hezbollah Brigade militiamen, brandishing their flag, who are joining the fight against Islamic State group militants in Khalidiya, 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)
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The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America has started its own parades. Last year, more than 700 IAVA members and their families marched in the Veterans Day Parade in New York. More events are planned to showcase the younger group of veterans. (Associated Press)
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Miss America Kira Kazantsev will appear in the National Memorial Day Parade in the nation's capital on Monday.
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Helen McDermott visits the grave marker of her husband, U.S. Army Sergeant Tom McDermott, at Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Sunday, May 24, 2015, in Paducah, Ky. McDermott said her husband, a Vietnam War era veteran, passed away in September of 2014. (John Paul Henry/The Paducah Sun via AP)
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This is a Civil War era photo provided by the Library of Congress shows Frances Clalin Clayton, who disguised herself as a man, "Jack Williams," to fight in the Civil War. On May 15, 2015, Steve Killings, board president of The Academy for Veteran Education and Training, an educational nonprofit group located at Historic Jordan Springs, said that the organization is trying to erect a monument to honor the more than 500 women who posed as men so they could fight. (Library Of Congress via AP)
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This is a Civil War era photo provided by the Library of Congress shows a portrait of Frances Clalin Clayton, woman who disguised herself as a man, "Jack Williams," to fight in the Civil War. On May 15, 2015, Steve Killings, board president of The Academy for Veteran Education and Training, an educational nonprofit group located at Historic Jordan Springs, said that the organization is trying to erect a monument to honor the more than 500 women who posed as men so they could fight. (Library Of Congress via AP)
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Demonstrators pause at the entrance to the Cuyahoga County Justice Center as police stand guard during a protest against the acquittal of Michael Brelo, a patrolman charged in the shooting deaths of two unarmed suspects, Saturday, May 23, 2015, in Cleveland. Brelo was acquitted Saturday in a case involving a 137-shot barrage of gunfire that helped prompt the U.S. Department of Justice determine the city police department had a history of using excessive force and violating civil rights. (AP Photo/John Minchillo
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Special forces operators told The Daily Beast that they are frustrated with a U.S. strategy for fighting the Islamic State group that keeps them largely on the sidelines. (Image: U.S. Navy, SWCC)
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General John F. Campbell commander of international forces in Afghanistan speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 23, 2015. Campbell said the Islamic State group is actively recruiting in Afghanistan but is not yet operational there. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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General John F. Campbell, commander of international forces in Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) ** FILE **
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In this April 23, 2015, file photo, Iraqi security forces and tribal fighters regain control of the northern neighborhoods, after overnight heavy clashes with Islamic State group militants, in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A police van burns in Baltimore, April 27, 2015, during riots sparked by the death of Freddie Gray. Mr. Gray, 25, died April 19 after being taken into custody by Baltimore cops April 12. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
