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U.S. sailors fold the national ensign aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor in the Philippine Sea, Dec. 7, 2011, after a remembrance ceremony marking the Dec. 7, 1941, attacks. The Pearl Harbor and Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are conducting operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group.

FOLDING THE FLAG

U.S. sailors fold the national ensign aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor in the Philippine Sea, Dec. 7, 2011, after a remembrance ceremony marking the Dec. 7, 1941, attacks. The Pearl Harbor and Marines assigned to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit are conducting operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility as part of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group.

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