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Troops from the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Fort Bragg, N.C., watch the sun come up over the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 16, 2009. Most of the 800 or so troops that came in overnight slept under the stars and began moving out to forward operating bases as the morning progressed.

SUNRISE

Troops from the 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team, Fort Bragg, N.C., watch the sun come up over the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 16, 2009. Most of the 800 or so troops that came in overnight slept under the stars and began moving out to forward operating bases as the morning progressed.

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