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Veterans

Archiving Arlington's Section 60

View images of the final resting place for service members who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Image: James Speraw, Alan Bogan

Collecting memories

James Speraw, left, and Alan Bogan, curators at the Center of Military History collect items left at the graves at Section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery where more than 600 service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday, April 8, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Morning rounds

James Speraw and Alan Bogan, curators at the Center of Military History look to collect items left at the graves at Section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery where more than 600 service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Our lost brother

James Speraw, a curator at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, holds up a set of dog tags left at a grave at Section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery where more than 600 service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Safekeeping

James Speraw, left, a curator at the Center of Military History drops a plastic easter egg into a bag as he collects items left at the graves at Section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery where more than 600 service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday, April 8, 2010 in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Items of remembrance

A beer bottle, wedding photo, pins, and other items are displayed in archival bags after they were collected by the Army's Center of Military History at Section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery where more than 600 service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Thursday, April 8, 2010, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Family gathering

The family of Army Spc. Thomas \"T.J\" Barbieri, from Gaithersburg, Md., sit around his grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Sunday, April 11, 2010, as they get ready to celebrate what would have been his 28th birthday. Barbieri was killed south of Baghdad, Iraq, in August 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Solitary observance

Paula Davis, 55, of Gaithersburg, Md., a single mother who lost her only child, Army Pfc. Justin Davis, 29, in Afghanistan in 2006, sits at his grave at Section 60, at Arlington National Cemetery where more than 600 service members who served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried, Sunday, April 11, 2010 in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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Missing dad

Nicki Bunting, 29, of Potomac, Md., holds her five-month-old son Cooper at the grave of his father Army Capt. Brian \"Bubba\" Bunting at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., Sunday, April 11, 2010. Capt. Bunting died from a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan on Feb. 24, 2009, not knowing his wife was pregnant with Cooper, their second child. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
— Charles Dharapak / AP
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