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Sesame Street Muppets Rosita, right, and Elmo, accompanied Melvin Ming, Sesame Workshop’s chief operating officer, to the Defense Department’s 2009 Child Development Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2009. Elmo and Rosita helped Ming explain the Workshop’s “Talk, Listen, Connect” videos designed to help military kids deal with many of the challenges they face. DoD photo by Samantha L. Quigley

Sesame Street Muppets Rosita, right, and Elmo, accompanied Melvin Ming, Sesame Workshop’s chief operating officer, to the Defense Department’s 2009 Child Development Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2009. Elmo and Rosita helped Ming explain the Workshop’s “Talk, Listen, Connect” videos designed to help military kids deal with many of the challenges they face. DoD photo by Samantha L. Quigley

Sesame Street Muppets Rosita, right, and Elmo, accompanied Melvin Ming, Sesame Workshop’s chief operating officer, to the Defense Department’s 2009 Child Development Conference in Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2009. Elmo and Rosita helped Ming explain the Workshop’s “Talk, Listen, Connect” videos designed to help military kids deal with many of the challenges they face. DoD photo by Samantha L. Quigley

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