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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates shakes hands with retired Rear Adm. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 18, 2009. Denton spent seven years and seven months as a prisoner of war when he was shot down and captured by North Vietnamese troops in 1965.

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates shakes hands with retired Rear Adm. Jeremiah A. Denton Jr. during the National POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 18, 2009. Denton spent seven years and seven months as a prisoner of war when he was shot down and captured by North Vietnamese troops in 1965.

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