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Nellie Bagley, mother of wounded New Hampshire National Guard Staff Sgt. Jose Pequeno, embraces Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the National Memorial Day Concert, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2009. Pequeno was severely wounded during a grenade attack in Ramadi, Iraq in 2006.

A MOTHER'S EMBRACE

Nellie Bagley, mother of wounded New Hampshire National Guard Staff Sgt. Jose Pequeno, embraces Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the National Memorial Day Concert, Washington, D.C., May 24, 2009. Pequeno was severely wounded during a grenade attack in Ramadi, Iraq in 2006.

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