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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cody Hoefer, assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, talks with children outside of the women's developmental center in the district of Quarakosh near Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 5, 2009.

Staff Sgt. Cody Hoefer talks with children outside of the women's developmental center.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Cody Hoefer, assigned to Headquarters Company, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, talks with children outside of the women's developmental center in the district of Quarakosh near Mosul, Iraq, on Dec. 5, 2009.

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