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U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division patrol through a village in the Pech Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.

We've been spending a lot of our time looking at pictures from the tragedy at Fort Hood, Texas. The terrible irony of the shootings there is that they happened to U.S. troops on their own soil, at the same time that soldiers like this are deployed to dangerous wars abroad.

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