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Russian Gen. Nikolay Makarov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meet with Gregory Gagarin, a World War II veteran at a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., April 23, 2010. The event commemorates the 65th anniversary of the link up of U.S. and Soviet forces during World War II at Elbe River in Germany, April 25, 1945.

Russian Gen. Nikolay Makarov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meet with Gregory Gagarin, a World War II veteran at a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., April 23, 2010. The event commemorates the 65th anniversary of the link up of U.S. and Soviet forces during World War II at Elbe River in Germany, April 25, 1945.

Russian Gen. Nikolay Makarov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, and U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, meet with Gregory Gagarin, a World War II veteran at a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., April 23, 2010. The event commemorates the 65th anniversary of the link up of U.S. and Soviet forces during World War II at Elbe River in Germany, April 25, 1945.

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