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UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
Politics 2013: President Obama's inauguration festivities lower key
Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration was one for the record books. So is his second, but for a different reason.
Myrlie Evers-Williams, wife of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers, will deliver the invocation at President Obama's swearing-in, the event committee said.
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The U.S. Navy has received a new dry cargo and ammunition ship, the USNS Medgar Evers, from General Dynamics NASSCO.
UPI Almanac for Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012.
The U.S. Navy has received its 12th T-AKE dry cargo-ammunition ship, the USNS William McLean, from General Dynamics NASSCO.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has honored an old promise and named a ship after slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis says former NAACP chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams will receive its National Freedom Award.
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Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
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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