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A Visit To Kabul's DMV

Nov. 12, 2009
Renee Montagne "returns" to Kabul with a scene outside the city's DMV office, where she is overtaken by a crowd of men who are eager to complain about the corruption that infects their livelihoods.
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorated in Washington
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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