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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, left, speaks with a wounded warrior from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., at the AFC championship game tailgate party at Joint Base Meyer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va., Jan. 22, 2012. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey and Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld, chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff respectively, hosted the party for wounded warriors from Fort Belvoir, Va., and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

TAILGATE TALK

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, left, speaks with a wounded warrior from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., at the AFC championship game tailgate party at Joint Base Meyer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va., Jan. 22, 2012. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey and Navy Adm. James A. Winnefeld, chairman and vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff respectively, hosted the party for wounded warriors from Fort Belvoir, Va., and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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