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U.S. Air Force Senior Airman David Lysiak, a librarian with 332nd Expeditionary Services Squadron, sorts through books donated from Coutts Library Services Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y., to the library on Balad Air Base, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2008. The air base library receives about seven boxes of new books a month from locations around the United States.

BOOKS FOR BALAD

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman David Lysiak, a librarian with 332nd Expeditionary Services Squadron, sorts through books donated from Coutts Library Services Inc., Niagara Falls, N.Y., to the library on Balad Air Base, Iraq, Feb. 18, 2008. The air base library receives about seven boxes of new books a month from locations around the United States.

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