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From left-right, Sarah Cato, Susan LaGrone, Dorothy Brown and John E. LaGrone, members of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, read a list of 173 names of former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War during a Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and will be honored with a plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)
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Edwina W. Lindsey, a member of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, looks at graveside marker at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. Nearly 175 former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War but were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery were honored on Memorial Day. A plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry will be placed graveside. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)
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Edwina W. Lindsey, a member of the St. Louis African-American History and Genealogy Society, reads some of the 173 names of former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War during a Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and will be honored with a plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)
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Sarah Cato, left, Dorothy Brown, center, and John E. LaGrone, right, members of the St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society, read a list of 173 names of former slaves who fought for the Union in the Civil War during a Memorial Day service at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis on Monday, May 26, 2014. The soldiers were buried in a mass grave at the cemetery and will be honored with a plaque that identifies by name the previously unknown members of the 56th U.S. Colored Infantry. (AP Photo/Whitney Curtis)
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Jets fly over as members of the U.S. Military hold the American Flag across the outfield, in honor of Memorial Day, before a baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and the Boston Red Sox on Monday, May 26, 2014, in Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)
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In this Monday, May 26, 2014, photo, the Nigerians United Against Terrorism group attends a demonstration calling on the government to rescue the kidnapped girls of the government secondary school in Chibok, in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria's defense chief said Monday that the military has located nearly 300 school girls abducted by Islamic extremists but cannot use force to free them. (AP Photo/Gbenga Olamikan)
