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A Day of Searching, Anger and Renewed Grief in a Desecrated Illinois Cemetery

Jul. 10, 2009
Burr Oak Cemetery near Chicago was a scene of anguish as family members and the authorities responded to the removal of at least 300 bodies from their graves.
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A U.S. Air Force B-52 flies over the Vietnam Veterans Memorial during commemoration of 50th anniversary of the war on May 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama is at the base of the wall left center. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. The B-52 bomber was used extensively during the Vietnam War. UPI/Pat Benic