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Lance Cpl. James E. Connelly, a 19-year-old rifleman from Cedar Grove, N.J., passes by an Iraqi woman and her daughter during a patrol in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. Connelly and other Marines assigned to I Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment conducted the patrol to show their prescence within the community.

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Lance Cpl. James E. Connelly, a 19-year-old rifleman from Cedar Grove, N.J., passes by an Iraqi woman and her daughter during a patrol in Sadiquiyah, Iraq, Aug. 18, 2006. Connelly and other Marines assigned to I Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment conducted the patrol to show their prescence within the community.

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