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Deanna Moses holds onto her boyfriend Pfc. Donald Davis as he prepares to board a bus after his deployment ceremony.

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One of the many documents released by the CIA is seen at the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington June 26, 2007.Central Intelligence Agency's secret documents of the agency's contacts with other U.S. government agencies, shows some deleted portions in blank boxes, at the National Security Archives, Tuesday, June 26, 2007, in Washington. The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on agency misconduct that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s over government spying on Americans.

Mariela Perdomo of the Buena Vista locality of Havana, watches as Cuban President Fidel Castro speaks on television 05 June 2007 in Havana, Cuba. The CIA offered 150,000 dollars to members of the US mafia to kill Castro with poison pills, according to classified documents released Tuesday.

National Security Archive Executive Director Thomas Blanton (L) and his team of senior analysts look though documents released by the CIA at the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, June 26, 2007.

National Security Archive Executive Director Thomas Blanton reads one of the documents released by the CIA at the National Security Archive at George Washington University in Washington, June 26, 2007.

Staff Sgt. Jack Decker trains to administer first aid to a life-like critically injured solider under simulated combat situations at Fort Campbell Army Base in Fort Campbell, Ky., Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Troops are training in preparation for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan this Fall.

Pfc. Lorianne Flippo, left, prepares to gives mock first aid to fellow solider Pfc. Claudia Brooks during a medic training exercise at Fort Campbell Army Base in Fort Campbell, Ky., Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Troops are training in preparation for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan this Fall.

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Shauna Fleming, a graduating high school senior, who started 'A Million Thanks' letter-writing campaign to send letters to troops in Iraq sorts mail at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange, Calif., Friday, June 8, 2007. In three years, Fleming tripled her expectations and is now starting a nonprofit organization that gives a bit more, granting wishes to wounded soldiers.

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American veteran Theodore Fiedler(L) returns a Japanese flag to Yoshie Nakane, a relative of a Japanese veteran, during a memorial service for the battle of Iwo Jima island in 1995. Generations of schoolchildren who learned about Iwo Jima, scene of one of the bloodiest Pacific battles of World War II, now have a new name to remember -- "Iwo To."

U.S. Corpsmen carry a wounded Marine on a stretcher to an evacuation boat on the beach at Iwo Jima while other Marines huddle in a foxhole during the invasion of the Japanese Volcano Island stronghold in this file photo of Feb. 25, 1945. A search team is on the island looking for a cave where the Marine combat photographer who filmed the famous World War II flag raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle nine days later, military officials said Friday, June 22, 2007. The team, from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, based at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, is on Iwo Jima looking for the remains of Sgt. Willam H. Genaust and 'as many other American servicemen as they can find,' JPAC spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Brown told The Associated Press.

Charles Lindberg, the Marine who raised the first American flag at Iwo Jima during WWII, is shown in St. Paul, Minn., in a Thursday, March 2, 2006 file photo. Lindberg died Sunday, June 25, 2007, at Fairview Southdale hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director of the Morris Nilsen Funeral Home in Richfield, Minn. He was 86.

The Iwo Jima Memorial is silhouetted in the morning sun in 2005 in Arlington, Virginia. Charles W. Lindberg, the last of the Iwo Jima flag raisers has died

U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Friday, Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. In a neglected vault buried under New York's Rockefeller Center, a musty, hot space with little room between rows of rusted-shut file cabinets, The Associated Press found pieces of history. The unearthing of thousands of documents, fragments of the 161-year history of the news cooperative, led to the publication of a new history of the AP, the first since the outbreak of World War II.

U.S. Army Specialist Joe Keck, who lost his left arm in Afghanistan, stands in Boston with his new service dog Nolls after graduating from the NEADS program in which prison inmates train dogs to be placed with deaf and disabled Americans, including disabled combat veterans.

Asst. Engineer Zsolt Szoke, who worked with Charleston firefighter Brandon Thompson on Engine 10, stands at attention on a firetruck during Thompson's funeral service in Goose Creek, S.C.

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As the documentary "Reel Bad Arabs" demonstrates, individuals of Middle Eastern descent often are portrayed as villans in the movies and on television