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Robbie, Courtney and Brittany Bergquist prepare prepaid phone cards in the basement of their family's Norwell, Mass., home last year for delivery to a unit deploying to Iraq. The Defense Department's Contracting Center of Excellence has been collecting donations this holiday season for the Bergquist children's "Cell Phones for Soldiers" program. Photo by John D. Banusiewicz

Robbie, Courtney and Brittany Bergquist prepare prepaid phone cards in the basement of their family's Norwell, Mass., home last year for delivery to a unit deploying to Iraq. The Defense Department's Contracting Center of Excellence has been collecting donations this holiday season for the Bergquist children's "Cell Phones for Soldiers" program. Photo by John D. Banusiewicz

Robbie, Courtney and Brittany Bergquist prepare prepaid phone cards in the basement of their family's Norwell, Mass., home last year for delivery to a unit deploying to Iraq. The Defense Department's Contracting Center of Excellence has been collecting donations this holiday season for the Bergquist children's "Cell Phones for Soldiers" program. Photo by John D. Banusiewicz

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