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U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kyle Harper, a truck leader with Military Police Company, 2nd Maintenance Battalion, hands a bottle of water to an Iraqi child in Al Qam, Iraq, June 5, 2007.

HELPING HANDS

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Kyle Harper, a truck leader with Military Police Company, 2nd Maintenance Battalion, hands a bottle of water to an Iraqi child in Al Qam, Iraq, June 5, 2007.

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