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Subscribe to RSSWe see a variation of this picture every year, and I never get tired of it. Good luck graduates.
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Newly commissioned 2nd lieutenants throw their caps in the air as a team of Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the 2011 graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy on May 25, 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colo. A total of 1,021 graduates received their diplomas in front of their families and dignitaries at the Academy's Falcon Stadium.