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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with children and members of the Batuta Foundation and Colombia's Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation in Bogota, Oct. 3, 2007.

GREETING THE CHILDREN

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with children and members of the Batuta Foundation and Colombia's Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation in Bogota, Oct. 3, 2007.

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