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Defense Secretary Ash Carter shares a light moment with the NBA's Houston Rockets at the Pentagon, March 28, 2015. Earlier, the basketball stars visited the gravesites of fallen service members, met with an Army widow and laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

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Defense Secretary Ash Carter shares a light moment with the NBA's Houston Rockets at the Pentagon, March 28, 2015. Earlier, the basketball stars visited the gravesites of fallen service members, met with an Army widow and laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.

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