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President Barack Obama leaves a presidential coin at the gravesite of 19-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Army Spc. Ross McGinnis, one of two Medal of Honor recipients memorialized at the cemetery from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, during a Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 11, 2009.

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President Barack Obama leaves a presidential coin at the gravesite of 19-year-old Medal of Honor recipient Army Spc. Ross McGinnis, one of two Medal of Honor recipients memorialized at the cemetery from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, during a Veterans Day commemoration at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 11, 2009.

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