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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates receives a tour of the USO Reading Room at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, Texas, May 3, 2007. The reading room was designed to give soldiers the opportunity to read books to their children via videotape while they are deployed in Iraq.

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates receives a tour of the USO Reading Room at the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, Texas, May 3, 2007. The reading room was designed to give soldiers the opportunity to read books to their children via videotape while they are deployed in Iraq.

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