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U.S. soldiers talk with an Afghan during a patrol near a village in the Khogyani district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, March 29, 2013.

U.S. soldiers talk with an Afghan during a patrol near a village in the Khogyani district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, March 29, 2013.

U.S. soldiers talk with an Afghan during a patrol near a village in the Khogyani district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, March 29, 2013.

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