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An Iraqi policeman shows off the watermelon he has just bought from a street vendor during a patrol with U.S. soldiers in the Ghazaliya district of Baghdad, Iraq, July, 17, 2008. The soldiers are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's,1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry.

WATERMELON MOOD

An Iraqi policeman shows off the watermelon he has just bought from a street vendor during a patrol with U.S. soldiers in the Ghazaliya district of Baghdad, Iraq, July, 17, 2008. The soldiers are assigned to the 101st Airborne Division's,1st Squadron, 75th Cavalry.

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