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U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Reese, with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, speaks to a young Iraqi boy during a joint patrol with Iraqi police through a village in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 26, 2009.

Sgt. Jason Reese speaks to a young Iraqi boy.

U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Reese, with Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 112th Infantry Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, speaks to a young Iraqi boy during a joint patrol with Iraqi police through a village in the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, Iraq, on May 26, 2009.

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