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Members of the Hawr Rajab Village of Hope vocational school stand together for a group photo after the fourth and final graduation ceremony on Patrol Base Stone, Iraq, Sept. 25, 2008. The coalition-led civil service corps program took members of Sons of Iraq, a citizen security group, from checkpoints and taught them trades to use in the workplace.

HAWR RAJAB HOPE

Members of the Hawr Rajab Village of Hope vocational school stand together for a group photo after the fourth and final graduation ceremony on Patrol Base Stone, Iraq, Sept. 25, 2008. The coalition-led civil service corps program took members of Sons of Iraq, a citizen security group, from checkpoints and taught them trades to use in the workplace.

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