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Marine Lance Cpl. Edwin S. Contreras gives an Iraqi boy a lollipop in Hit, Iraq, March 29, 2008. Contreras, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, was conducting a security patrol through the city.

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Marine Lance Cpl. Edwin S. Contreras gives an Iraqi boy a lollipop in Hit, Iraq, March 29, 2008. Contreras, assigned to 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, was conducting a security patrol through the city.

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