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Aubrey Hansberry, a high school senior from an Army family, is the artist for this depiction of a child running toward her father coming home from deployment. Nearly 50 illustrations, paintings and writings were on display at the U.S. Education Department on April 3, 2013, in observance of the Month of the Military Child. DOD photo by Terri Moon Cronk

Aubrey Hansberry, a high school senior from an Army family, is the artist for this depiction of a child running toward her father coming home from deployment. Nearly 50 illustrations, paintings and writings were on display at the U.S. Education Department on April 3, 2013, in observance of the Month of the Military Child. DOD photo by Terri Moon Cronk

Aubrey Hansberry, a high school senior from an Army family, is the artist for this depiction of a child running toward her father coming home from deployment. Nearly 50 illustrations, paintings and writings were on display at the U.S. Education Department on April 3, 2013, in observance of the Month of the Military Child. DOD photo by Terri Moon Cronk

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