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For two years, through the photography of Brian Plonka and the writing of James Hagengruber, Spokesman-Review readers followed the journey of twins Robert and Matt Shipp from high school in North Idaho to Marine boot camp to the Middle East. Robert and Matt Shipp take in the late afternoon scenery before their welcome home party at the family restaurant at Hauser Lake, Idaho, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2006. The boys wore their uniforms to the party. In a few days the Marines will return to Camp Pendleton and begin their advanced training for the challenges ahead in defending our country.
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"It was scary." says Brandon Hill, 8, of Boone Street in Spokane's North Side about watching the events of Tuesday unfold on television. Since then the manager of the apartment building where Hill lives installed a new flag on the porch as a symbol of patriotism that is growing in the area. Photo taken Sept. 12, 2001
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Spokane Valley Fire Department Deputy Chief Larry Rider (far right in white) and SVFD Captain Tag Baugh (left on beam) snug a 1,200 pound beam recovered from the World Trade Center into it's final resting spot in a ceremony at the new SVFD administration building, Sun., Sept. 11, 2011. The beam was given to the SVFD by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and will serve as a memorial to the sacrifices made by so many on 9/11/2001.
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Staff Sgt. Jason Hopper (cq) holds his 3-tear-old daughter McKenna (cq) after they were reunited at Fairchild Air Force Base Tuesday afternoon, May 16, 2006. Hopper and 88 other military personnel, mostly from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, returned from deployment in the Middle East.
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The moon rises over the South Hill in Spokane, Wash., June 18, 2008.
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Sister Amanda de Jesus, left, is hit with a snowball thrown by Sister Rosa Elena after school Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 22, 2003, at Mount Saint Michael in Spokane, Wash. The two nuns, visiting from Mexico, said this was the first time they saw snow.
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Solo the trumpeter swan that's been returning to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge for at least three and possibly four decades, takes off from Winslow Pond after returning to the refuge on Jan. 25, 2010, as soon as enough open water was free of ice for him to come back. This time he returned with the mate he found in 2009 and three of the four cygnets they produced that spring. Refuge biologists do not know where the swans spent the ice-up portion of the winter.
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Isiah Russull, 11, a member of the Flathead and Black Feet tribes prepares for the grand entry at the annual Spokane Falls Northwest Indian Encampment and Powwow at Riverfront Park, Aug. 28, 2004.
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