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A happy mother embraces her daughter at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Md., Dec. 22, 2010. The daughter arrived in the United States in time for the holidays along with 260 other military members after months of service abroad.

MOTHER'S HUG

A happy mother embraces her daughter at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Md., Dec. 22, 2010. The daughter arrived in the United States in time for the holidays along with 260 other military members after months of service abroad.

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