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YASSER ARAFAT
Masked Palestinian militants march with posters of the late President Yasser Arafat in Rafah, Gaza, on November 11, 2004. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died at a Paris hospital early Thursday. He was 75. (UPI photo /Ismael Mohamad)

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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