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Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright talks with a World War II veteran at the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial Service in Fredericksburg, Texas, Dec. 7, 2008. Cartwright was the guest speaker at the event, held in front of The National Museum of the Pacific War in the hometown of U.S. Navy Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz.

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Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright talks with a World War II veteran at the Pearl Harbor Survivors Memorial Service in Fredericksburg, Texas, Dec. 7, 2008. Cartwright was the guest speaker at the event, held in front of The National Museum of the Pacific War in the hometown of U.S. Navy Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz.

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