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Specialist William Highsmith sits with an Iraqi child outside of a clinic while members of the 1st Armored Division and local Iraqi medical professionals teach a class on preventative medicine to the local population on Dec. 2, 2003 in Baghdad. the regime of Saddam Hussein. (UPI Photo/Stacy L. Pearsall/Air Force)

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