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Marine Corps veteran Antonio Quezada receives a spiritual cleansing and prayer from Native American Veterans Association's spiritual adviser Tony LittleHawk, an Army Vietnam veteran, during the Native American Veterans Association's annual Veterans Appreciation and Heritage Day Pow Wow in South Gate, Calif., Nov. 8, 2014. Quezada is from the White Mountain Apache tribe and LittleHawk is from the Cherokee tribe.

Marine Corps veteran Antonio Quezada receives a spiritual cleansing and prayer from Native American Veterans Association's spiritual adviser Tony LittleHawk, an Army Vietnam veteran, during the Native American Veterans Association's annual Veterans Appreciation and Heritage Day Pow Wow in South Gate, Calif., Nov. 8, 2014. Quezada is from the White Mountain Apache tribe and LittleHawk is from the Cherokee tribe.

Marine Corps veteran Antonio Quezada receives a spiritual cleansing and prayer from Native American Veterans Association's spiritual adviser Tony LittleHawk, an Army Vietnam veteran, during the Native American Veterans Association's annual Veterans Appreciation and Heritage Day Pow Wow in South Gate, Calif., Nov. 8, 2014. Quezada is from the White Mountain Apache tribe and LittleHawk is from the Cherokee tribe.

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