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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

One-hundred-eighty-four beams of light project from the Pentagon courtyard in the night sky, Sept. 10, 2006, to commemorate each life lost at the Pentagon on the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

One-hundred-eighty-four beams of light project from the Pentagon courtyard in the night sky, Sept. 10, 2006, to commemorate each life lost at the Pentagon on the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

One-hundred-eighty-four beams of light project from the Pentagon courtyard in the night sky, Sept. 10, 2006, to commemorate each life lost at the Pentagon on the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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