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Jewell Bealmear, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serving on the Nangarhar provincial reconstruction team, talks with an elder in Surkh Rod district about the construction of a new footbridge, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, June 16, 2009.

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Jewell Bealmear, a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers serving on the Nangarhar provincial reconstruction team, talks with an elder in Surkh Rod district about the construction of a new footbridge, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, June 16, 2009.

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