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An Iraqi boy's American flag shirt earns him a high five from Sgt. Andrea Pierce, a military intelligence specialist with the 82nd Airborne Division's Company B, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, during a patrol through Baghdad, Sept. 5, 2007.

HIGH FIVE

An Iraqi boy's American flag shirt earns him a high five from Sgt. Andrea Pierce, a military intelligence specialist with the 82nd Airborne Division's Company B, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, during a patrol through Baghdad, Sept. 5, 2007.

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