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Members of the Old Guard salute as Sec. of the Army John McHugh, left, Commanding General of U.S. Special Forces Command Brig. Gen. Darsie D. Rogers, second from left, and William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, third from left, participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Members of the Old Guard stand in front of The Eternal Flame during a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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William Kennedy Smith, the Nephew of John F. Kennedy, and Cousin Victoria Lawford, right, lay roses at the JFK grave site before a President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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An honor guard of green berets representing all of the Special Forces Groups prepare to participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event was is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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An honor guard of green berets representing all of the Special Forces Groups prepare to participate in a commemorative President John F. Kennedy Wreath Laying Ceremony at the JFK grave site at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA., Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The event was is in tribute to JFK's vision of building a dedicated counter insurgency force that helped build the Green Berets into an elite force. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Ebola has killed more than 2,000 people in Liberia, one of the hardest-hit nations in the ongoing world health crisis. Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the only remaining African countries still fighting the disease after the WHO declared Nigeria, the continent's most populous nation, free of the virus. Spain and the U.S. are the only other two world nations dealing with cases. (associated press)
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Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside, who commanded the Union Army of the Potomac, is seen Dec. 15, 1862, during the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. The battle, which ended in disaster for Federal forces, cost the lives of 12,000 northern soldiers. This is a Mathew Brady photo made after the engagement. (AP Photo/Mathew Brady)
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This Jan. 27, 2012, file photo shows the words 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) at the main entrance of the Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp on the international Holocaust remembrance day in Oranienburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
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Chance Pellum is among the small percentage of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have joined the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Many others want more than smoky bars and feel unwelcome by Vietnam-era veterans, who make up the largest portion of the VFW and American Legion membership. (Associated Press)
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While Pennsylvania state Rep. Marty Flynn didn't respond to a request for an interview, he appears to be embracing the role of a hero, posing for this photo at his local barbershop while holding a sign proclaiming "Warning: Protected by Second Amendment Security," as the employees proudly display their firearms. The photo was quickly taken down from the Facebook page of the Loyalty Barbershop & Shave Parlor. (Facebook)
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Afghanistan's security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack, targeting an Afghanistan's National Army convoy on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014. The suicide bomb killed several Afghan security force troops Saturday as a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province killed a district police chief, authorities said. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the Taliban have step up assaults against both Afghan and foreign forces across the country as most international troops are preparing to withdraw at the end the year. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)
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Soldiers with Battery C, 1st Battalion, 321st Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 18th Fires Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, fire 155 mm rounds using an M777 Howitzer weapons system, on Forward Operating Base Bostick, Afghanistan, 2009. The Army is now looking for a canon with much longer range — 1,000 miles. (U.S. Army)
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Outbreak: A 1989 Veterinary Medicine Division team at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) found Ebola could be spread airborne in primates. (Associated Press)
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Witches cause trouble on the Trail of Terror at the ‘Field of Screams’ in Olney, Maryland. (Photograph by Jacquie Kubin / Special to The Washington Times)
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Frights are to be had on the Trail of Terror at the ‘Field of Screams’ in Olney, Maryland. (Photograph by Jacquie Kubin / Special to The Washington Times)
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Brad Pitt stars as tank crew leader Wardaddy in "Fury," a film that is set at near the end of World War II. (Sony Pictures Entertainment via Associated Press)
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An Islamic State fighter armed with knife and automatic weapon stands over captured Syrian army soldiers and officers. The group has enriched its coffers via the black market sales of oil from Northern Iraq's oil fields, but U.S. airstrikes have likely dampened that windfall since the bombings commenced. (Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State via Associated Press)
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holy war: The Islamic State has used the Koran to justify its use of murder, extortion and sexual slavery in their establishment of a caliphate. However, Muslim scholars say the group is incorrectly citing the holy book. (Associated Press)
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conflagration: Thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, as fighting continued between Syrian Kurds and militants of the Islamic State group. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, has been under assault since mid-September. Story, A9 (Associated Press)
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Frights are to be had on the Trail of Terror at the Field of Screams in Olney, Maryland. (Photograph by Jacquie Kubin / Special to The Washington Times)
