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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presents a wreath in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., April 23, 2010, at the memorial commemorating the 65th anniversary of the link up of U.S. and Soviet forces during World War II at Elbe River in Germany, April 25, 1945.

ANNIVERSARY WREATH

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presents a wreath in Arlington National Cemetery, Va., April 23, 2010, at the memorial commemorating the 65th anniversary of the link up of U.S. and Soviet forces during World War II at Elbe River in Germany, April 25, 1945.

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