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Father and Son

Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with his father, Joseph F. Dunford Sr., during the dedication of the Chosin Few Monument at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, May 4, 2017. The elder Dunford is a Marine veteran of the fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in the winter of 1950.

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