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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

Two Marines hold flags beside a grave cordoned off with a small white chain-link fence.

Honor Guard

An honor guard holds the American and Marine Corps flags at the gravesite of Marine Corps Pfc. Robert Jenkins Jr., Medal of Honor recipient, who died during the Vietnam War. The ceremony on Nov. 11, 1996, rededicated his grave at the Sister Spring Baptist Cemetery in Interlachen, Fla., and included a new headstone and footstone.

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