U.S. Marine Corps Col. Dave Lapan, left, talks with Mary Pero, and Marine Corps Col. Gregg Sturdevant, after Pero was presented with a posthumous certificate of citizenship for her brother, Marine Sgt. Michael Strank, at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Strank is the right most Marine in the memorial statue. Strank was a native of Jarabenia, Czechoslovakia, who came to the United States in 1922 at age 3. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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