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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A service member holding small U.S. flags in one hand salutes in front of a cemetery headstone with the other.

Sacred Service

A service member salutes while helping to place U.S. flags at every gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery, Va., during Flags In, May 26, 2022. The pre-Memorial Day tradition to honor the nation’s fallen heroes dates to 1948.

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