Brig. Gen. Paul Schafer presents the U.S. flag to Angela Cooke at the funeral for her father, Staff Sgt. Calvin Cooke Jr., at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday, June 20. Sergeant Cooke, a C-130 Hercules loadmaster, died in April 1972 when his aircraft crashed in South Vietnam after being hit by ground fire. His remains were identified last month by experts at the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command headquarters. General Schafer is director of the special programs office for the under secretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics.

U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Cohen A. Young

Two Marines kneel in mourning for Cpl. Christopher D. Leon at Camp Ramadi June 23, 2006.

Leon, a radio operator with 2nd Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, was killed June 20, 2006, while conducting operations in the city of Ramadi.

The Lancaster, Calif., native was remembered as a friendly, open-hearted individual who was a “Marine’s Marine” within his unit.

Photo by Cpl. Daniel J. Redding

Capt. David Best, a platoon leader from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, checks up on his favorite Iraqi family during a foot patrol in Badush, a town to the west of Mosul on June 23, 2006.

“The family has kind of adopted me," he said.

Photo by Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock
and courtesy of U.S. Army

President Bush and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Peter Pace share a lighter moment with “Dugout” the mascot.

The McGuire Air Force Base Yankees faced off against the Dolcom Little League Indians during the Whitehouse T-Ball game on the South Lawn, June 23, 2006.

Photo by U.S. Navy Cdr. Jane Campbell

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