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SLP2000011505 - 15 JANUARY 2000 - ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, USA: Dajuana Clemons, 10, stops to admire her work as she adds to the mural section of the sports accomplishments of Africian-American Jesse Owens and others while at the Dr. Martin Luther King Community Center, January 15. The mural will be unveiled on January 17, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. rg/bg/Bill Greenblatt 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