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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and 9-year-old Colton Lockner look at a poster from the Sebring, Ohio, Freedom Walk that Colton organized. Lockner and other organizers of various Freedom Walks around the nation visited the Pentagon Nov. 3, 2006, to meet with Rumsfeld and begin planning next year's Freedom Walk.

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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and 9-year-old Colton Lockner look at a poster from the Sebring, Ohio, Freedom Walk that Colton organized. Lockner and other organizers of various Freedom Walks around the nation visited the Pentagon Nov. 3, 2006, to meet with Rumsfeld and begin planning next year's Freedom Walk.

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