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(AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Removal of Confederate relics ordered

Alex Henderson - Alternet
FILE -- In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 file photo released by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S. Navy F-18E Super Hornet fighter jet receives fuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker over northern Iraq. A refueling accident involving a similar model of jet, the F/A-18D, resulted in the tragic death of six U.S. Marines. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Shawn Nickel, File) (AP)

Preventable disaster killed six Marines

Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose, T. Christian Miller - ProPublica
President Donald Trump has lunch with troops while visiting U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. Trump, who spent the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, stopped for a visit to the headquarters before returning to Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

Top Marine stumped by Trump's decision

Shira Tarlo
U.S. Marines at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP/Massoud Hossaini)

Tacking racial extremists within ranks

Rahima Nasa - ProPublica
White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

Marine affiliates with hate groups

A.C. Thompson, Ali Winston - ProPublica
Maximilian Uriarte (Melissa Wong)

A more honest Iraq War story

Scott Timberg
Martin Luther King, Jr. (AP/Bill Ingraham)

Ian Blair
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