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Billy Wilder dies at age 95
WAX2002032805 - WASHINGTON, March 28 (UPI) -- Actors Jack Lemmon, left, and Walter Matthau, right, pose with Kennedy Center honoree Billy Wilder at a State Department dinner on December 12, 1990, in Washington. Writer-director Billy Wilder died at age 95 of pneumonia on March 27, 2002, in Beverly Hills. Mathau died in July, 2001, and Lemmon died in June, 2001. rlw/kr/Karen Radkai UPI

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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch