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A vertical photo of the side profile of a service member holding a rifle as a boy looks on through the slit of a door or gate, behind the service member.

(Ben Murray/Stars and Stripes)

Samarra, Iraq, Oct. 20, 2006: Specialist Ryan Drewry, 21, from Cincinnati, Ohio, kneels in front of a gate in Samarra, Iraq, on a dismounted patrol through the city while a young Iraqi girl looks out. Soldiers in Company C, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division have been in Samarra since August 2006, trying to curb the violence and train Iraqi police.

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