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First lady Michelle Obama addresses an audience of primarily female servicemembers at a March 3, 2009, event honoring Women's History Month and military families at Arlington National Cemetery's Women in Military Service for America Memorial Center in Arlington, Va.

HONORING MILITARY WOMEN

First lady Michelle Obama addresses an audience of primarily female servicemembers at a March 3, 2009, event honoring Women's History Month and military families at Arlington National Cemetery's Women in Military Service for America Memorial Center in Arlington, Va.

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