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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Smiling spectators hold up letter signs spelling out "THANK YOU" along a parade route.

Onlooker Appreciation

On Veterans Day 2011 (11-11-11), an estimated 600,000 people lined 5th Avenue as the parade commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and a century of naval aviation.

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