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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A participant in the 23rd Annual Bataan Memorial Death March carries a prisoners of war and missing in action flag along the course on White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 25, 2012, to honor the more than 76,000 POW/MIAs that were taken at Bataan and Corregidor during World War II.

A participant in the 23rd Annual Bataan Memorial Death March carries a prisoners of war and missing in action flag along the course on White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 25, 2012, to honor the more than 76,000 POW/MIAs that were taken at Bataan and Corregidor during World War II.

A participant in the 23rd Annual Bataan Memorial Death March carries a prisoners of war and missing in action flag along the course on White Sands Missile Range, N.M., March 25, 2012, to honor the more than 76,000 POW/MIAs that were taken at Bataan and Corregidor during World War II.

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