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Flags of all the states and territories of the United States of America are carried in a parade past the audience during the Pentagon's annual ceremonies in observance of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Sept. 16, 2011. The co-hosts for this year's event were Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

PARADE OF FLAGS

Flags of all the states and territories of the United States of America are carried in a parade past the audience during the Pentagon's annual ceremonies in observance of National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Sept. 16, 2011. The co-hosts for this year's event were Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr., vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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