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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Ashlee Godston, 5, talks with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Ashlee and her family -- Army Lt. Col. Pete Godston, center, his wife, Mary Anne, and their younger daughter, Annika, 20 months -- met with Gates April 7, 2008, during a reception hosted by Our Military Kids, an organization that awards small grants to children of deployed National Guardsmen and reservists for extracurricular activities. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley, Department of Defense

Ashlee Godston, 5, talks with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Ashlee and her family -- Army Lt. Col. Pete Godston, center, his wife, Mary Anne, and their younger daughter, Annika, 20 months -- met with Gates April 7, 2008, during a reception hosted by Our Military Kids, an organization that awards small grants to children of deployed National Guardsmen and reservists for extracurricular activities. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley, Department of Defense

Ashlee Godston, 5, talks with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Ashlee and her family -- Army Lt. Col. Pete Godston, center, his wife, Mary Anne, and their younger daughter, Annika, 20 months -- met with Gates April 7, 2008, during a reception hosted by Our Military Kids, an organization that awards small grants to children of deployed National Guardsmen and reservists for extracurricular activities. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley, Department of Defense

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