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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates gives coins to the four-year-old children, who will be starting kindergarten at the new Forsyth Neighborhood Center, during a ground breaking ceremony for the center at Fort Riley, Kan., May 19, 2011.

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates gives coins to the four-year-old children, who will be starting kindergarten at the new Forsyth Neighborhood Center, during a ground breaking ceremony for the center at Fort Riley, Kan., May 19, 2011.

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