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Marine Corps Master Sgt. Robert Allen poses with his guitar for a photograph on Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2011. Allen wrote a Christmas song for his wife, Carla, during an earlier deployment to Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brian Adam Jones

Marine Corps Master Sgt. Robert Allen poses with his guitar for a photograph on Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2011. Allen wrote a Christmas song for his wife, Carla, during an earlier deployment to Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brian Adam Jones

Marine Corps Master Sgt. Robert Allen poses with his guitar for a photograph on Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Nov. 26, 2011. Allen wrote a Christmas song for his wife, Carla, during an earlier deployment to Iraq. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brian Adam Jones

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