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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Several dozen people raise candles in a dark night.

Lejeune Vigil

Service members, veterans and military families attend a candlelight vigil before a ceremony at Lejeune Memorial Gardens in Jacksonville, N.C., Oct. 23, 2018, to mark the 35th anniversary of the bombing at U.S. Marine Barracks, Beirut, and remember the lives lost.

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