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U.S. Navy Seaman Ashley Henderson writes notes of encouragement in books with first-grader Isabella Wyatt in Norfolk, Va., Jan 17, 2011. Henderson is assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, where sailors volunteered as mentors during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

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U.S. Navy Seaman Ashley Henderson writes notes of encouragement in books with first-grader Isabella Wyatt in Norfolk, Va., Jan 17, 2011. Henderson is assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, where sailors volunteered as mentors during the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.

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