War_Conflict

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A soldier with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places a flag at a grave site at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 22, 2014, as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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A soldier of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places a at flag at grave site at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 22, 2014, as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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** FILE ** Soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, place flags at grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Army Pvt. II Joshua Frazier, 19, of Washington, of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places a flags at grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 22, 2014, as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Soldiers of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, march in formation before placing flags at every grave site, Thursday, May 22, 2014, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Army Col. Matthew Rasmussen of the Army Military District of Washington, wipes tears from his eyes while visiting the grave of Army Staff Sgt. Richard Tieman, 28, of Waynesboro, Pa., as he and members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, also known as The Old Guard, places flags at grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Thursday, May 22, 2014, as part of the annual "Flags-In" ceremony in preparation for Memorial Day. Tieman died May 18, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered in a suicide car bombing. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

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Thousands will ride motorcycles around the monuments Sunday in honor of POWs and MIAs in Rolling Thunder's 27th annual ride. (Associated Press Photographs)

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Team owner Richard Childress answers a question during a news conference to announce the Goodyear Gives Back charitable program benefiting the "Support Our Troops" organization, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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2nd Lt. James Taaffe was the lone survivor after the plane flown by former Washington Senators player Elmer Gedeon was shot down over France on April 20, 1944. Gedeon and four other crew members were killed. Taaffe spent the rest of the war as a POW. (Courtesy Taaffe family)