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Deidre Downs, better known as Miss America 2005, sits down to eat with Georgia-based soldiers Sgt. Robert Griffin, Spc. Brent Goolsby, 2nd Lt. Stephen Lucas, and Staff Sgt. Terence Alford, who were just arriving back from Iraq for some rest and recuperation, during a July 3 dinner in Atlanta. Photo by Spc. Jonathan Montgomery, USA

Deidre Downs, better known as Miss America 2005, sits down to eat with Georgia-based soldiers Sgt. Robert Griffin, Spc. Brent Goolsby, 2nd Lt. Stephen Lucas, and Staff Sgt. Terence Alford, who were just arriving back from Iraq for some rest and recuperation, during a July 3 dinner in Atlanta. Photo by Spc. Jonathan Montgomery, USA

Deidre Downs, better known as Miss America 2005, sits down to eat with Georgia-based soldiers Sgt. Robert Griffin, Spc. Brent Goolsby, 2nd Lt. Stephen Lucas, and Staff Sgt. Terence Alford, who were just arriving back from Iraq for some rest and recuperation, during a July 3 dinner in Atlanta. Photo by Spc. Jonathan Montgomery, USA

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