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Wapsi Valley Archaeology Inc. workers Pat Hashman, left, and Owen Reese dig for artifacts in a World War I training trench at the Iowa National Guard Base at Camp Dodge, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in Johnston, Iowa. Excavation is underway at the camp as part of an archaeological dig to learn more about trench complexes built for training soldiers in World War I. Camp Dodge, originally established in 1909, was one of 16 U.S. Army installations across the country to be transformed for training from 1917 to 1919. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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A cadet yawns as he, and others, attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, graduation ceremony in West Point, N.Y., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. In a broad defense of his foreign policy, the president declared that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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U.S. Military Academy graduate Jessica Wagner, of Plymouth, Mass., stands with her mother Laureen Wagner after a graduation and commissioning ceremony, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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U.S. Military Academy graduate Daniel Heckman of Norcross, Ga., talks after a graduation and commissioning ceremony, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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U.S. Military Academy graduates Michael Lesmeister, left, and his brother Jeffrey Daniel Lesmeister, of Anoka, Minn. stand with their mother Lynn Sheree Lesmeister after a graduation and commissioning ceremony, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, in West Point, N.Y., Wednesday, May 28, 2014. In a broad defense of his foreign policy, the president declared that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama watches cadets hats after they were thrown at the end of a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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President Barack Obama arrives to a graduation and commissioning ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. In a broad defense of his foreign policy, the president declared that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 2, 2014 photo, D-Day survivor Ray Lambert holds a piece of "shale" from Omaha Beach at his home Seven lakes, N.C. Lambert, a combat medic, was with the 1st Infantry Division, which accounted for more than half of the 32,000-strong U.S. force that landed on Omaha Beach. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, World War II veteran Ray Lambert holds the "Big Red One" presented to him for excellence by Infantry Division Commander Maj. Gen. Kenneth W. Hunzeker in Seven Lakes, N.C. Of the more than 16,000 members of the "Big Red One" who staggered out of the landing craft, 3,000 were killed, wounded or captured. Today, only Lambert and a couple dozen others are known to remain. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - This April 2, 2014, photo shows a 16th Infantry Regiment patch with the Latin motto "Always Prepared" that decorates Ray Lambert's blazer at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Of the 31 men in the landing craft he rode onto Omaha Beach on D-Day, only seven made it ashore, and four of those, included Lambert, were wounded. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, Ray Lambert, a 1st Infantry Division combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, holds a copy of an old photograph of himself in uniform at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Lambert said during the invasion he waded into the water to help a man struggling in the surf. Just as he seized the man with his good arm, a landing craft lowered its ramp onto Lambert's back. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - In this April 17, 2014 photo, in Seven Lakes, N.C., Ray Lambert, a 1st Infantry Division combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, holds a pipe given to him by a German pilot that Lambert attempted to rescue from a burning plane just before the pilot died. Lambert said that he was applying tourniquets and doling out morphine during the invasion when something, a bullet or piece of shrapnel, he is not sure which, passed through his right arm, just above the elbow. He continued to work after his arm went numb. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, JUNE 2, 2014, AND THEREAFTER - This April 17, 2014 photo shows Ray Lambert, a combat veteran of the D-Day invasion, at his home in Seven Lakes, N.C. Lambert, a combat medic, was with the 1st Infantry Division, which accounted for more than half of the 32,000-strong U.S. force that landed on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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FILE- In this Saturday, April 12, 2014 file photo Chechen regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov speaks at a news conference in Chechnya's provincial capital Grozny, Russia. As the fighting increases in eastern Ukraine, Chechnya's Moscow-backed leader Kadyrov insisted Wednesday May 28, 2014, he had not sent any of his troops to help pro-Russia insurgents, but said some Chechens may have gone there on their own. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev, FILE)
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Ukrainian miners, wearing uniforms decorated with work medals, attend a rally in support of the Donetsk People's Republic in Lenin square, in Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Miners who, according to local media, have declared an open ended strike, protested against recent actions by Ukraine's military against rebels who tried to take control of the Donetsk airport Monday but were repelled by Ukrainian forces using combat jets and helicopter gunships in clashes that killed up to 100 rebel fighters.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)