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A little girl looks for her father in a military formation during a homecoming ceremony for the New Hampshire National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Brigade, at Plymouth High School, N.H., on March 4, 2005. The soldiers returned home from a 14-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A little girl looks for her father in a military formation during a homecoming ceremony.

A little girl looks for her father in a military formation during a homecoming ceremony for the New Hampshire National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery Brigade, at Plymouth High School, N.H., on March 4, 2005. The soldiers returned home from a 14-month deployment to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

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