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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A civilian woman wearing a Silver Star talks with a soldier.

Silver Star Daughter

Mary Jane Bolles Reed talks with Capt. Rachel Park, the assistant head nurse for the surgical intensive care unit at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, after accepting the Silver Star on behalf of her late mother, Linnie Leckrone, July 31, 2007. Once it was determined that Leckrone and two other World War I Army nurses were authorized to wear the Silver Star, officials searched for the nurses' living relatives to present them the awards.

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