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A display of framed pictures and a battlefield cross serve as a focus during a memorial ceremony for U.S. Army Spc. Hilda I. Clayton on Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Afghanistan, July 8, 2013.

A display of framed pictures and a battlefield cross serve as a focus during a memorial ceremony for U.S. Army Spc. Hilda I. Clayton on Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Afghanistan, July 8, 2013.

A display of framed pictures and a battlefield cross serve as a focus during a memorial ceremony for U.S. Army Spc. Hilda I. Clayton on Forward Operating Base Gamberi, Afghanistan, July 8, 2013.

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