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Posted: 5/14/2013 12:31:11 AM EST
In this May 13, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto answers reporters' questions at the Osaka city office in Osaka, western Japan. Osaka's outspoken mayor has said the system in which Asian women were forced to become wartime prostitutes before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the Japanese military. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 5/14/2013 12:31:11 AM EST
In this May 13, 2013 photo, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto answers reporters' questions at the Osaka city office in Osaka, western Japan. Osaka's outspoken mayor has said the system in which Asian women were forced to become wartime prostitutes before and during World War II was necessary to "maintain discipline" in the Japanese military. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
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Posted: 5/10/2013 6:19:53 AM EST
An elderly Bulgarian and World War II veteran passes by election campaign posters in Sofia, Thursday, May 9, 2013. A deeply fragmented Bulgaria heads into parliamentary elections Sunday, as frustration grows over the widening gap between once giddy hopes linked to EU membership and today’s sobering reality. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 5:13:37 AM EST
Russian WWII veterans walk after a Victory Day parade at Red Square on Thursday, May 9, 2013. President Vladimir Putin said at the annual military parade hat Russia will be a guarantor of world security. Putin's short speech came at the culmination of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 5:13:36 AM EST
Russian WWII veterans walk after a Victory Day parade at Red Square on Thursday, May 9, 2013. President Vladimir Putin said at the annual military parade hat Russia will be a guarantor of world security. Putin's short speech came at the culmination of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 5:13:36 AM EST
Russian WWII veterans walk after a Victory Day parade at Red Square on Thursday, May 9, 2013. President Vladimir Putin said at the annual military parade hat Russia will be a guarantor of world security. Putin's short speech came at the culmination of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/9/2013 5:13:36 AM EST
Russian WWII veterans walk after the Victory Day parade at Red Square on Thursday, May 9, 2013. Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the annual military parade hat Russia will be a guarantor of world security. Putin's short speech came at the culmination of Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany 68 years ago. It is Russia's most important secular holiday, honoring the huge military and civilian losses of World War II and showing off the country's modern arsenal. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
A hand written letter from Anne-Marie Crespo, of Istres, France, to Carol Wilkins, of Newark, N.J., is photographed, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. Crespo's letter was sent to Wilkins along with the U.S. Army dog tags belonging to Wilkins' father, Willie Wilkins, who lost the tags while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944. Crespo found the tags in 2001 while working in her garden. They were returned to Wilkins by Newark Mayor Cory Booker during a event which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, and which also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
In this photograph provided by Jack Fanous, director of the G.I. Go Veterans Transition Center of Newark, Anne-Marie Crespo poses for while holding U.S. Army dog tags that belong to Willie Wilkins while standing in her garden where she dug them up in Istres, France, in 2001. Wilkins lost the tags while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944 and were returned to him by Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
Bertrand Lortholary, consul general of France in New York City, holds a letter written in French by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, France, who found the dog tags that belong to World War II veteran Willie Wilkins, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The dog tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Crespo who was digging in her garden in 2001. The tags were returned to Wilkins during an event which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, and which also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
Newark Mayor Cory Booker holds a box containing the dog tags of Willie Wilkins, who lost them in France during World War II, at an event to return them to the veteran, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The U.S. Army dog tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, who was digging in her garden in 2001. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
In this photograph provided by Carol Wilkins, Willie Wilkins is seen at the age of 21 during an event at Newark City Hall in which his dog tags, which he lost while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944, were returned to him, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The dog tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, who was digging in her garden in 2001. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Carol Wilkins)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
Sheila Wilder holds the dog tags that belong to her father in law, Willie Wilkins, who lost them while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, France, who was digging in her garden in 2001. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
Willie Wilkins, who lost his dog tags while serving in a U.S. Army Quartermaster Truck Company in the invasion of Southern France in August 1944, looks on during an event to return the tags to the veteran, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, who was digging in her garden in 2001. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 5:55:42 PM EST
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, left, shakes hands with Willie Wilkins after returning a box with Wilkins World War II dog tags, which he lost in France during the war, at an event to return them to the veteran, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The U.S. Army tags were lost in 1944 and were found by Anne-Marie Crespo, a resident of Istres, France, who was digging in her garden in 2001. The event, which was held as a surprise for Wilkins, 90, also marked the 68th anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:01:37 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, right, attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier on the eve of Victory Day celebration in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Russia's marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9th. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:01:37 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier on the eve of Victory Day celebration in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Russia's marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9th. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:01:37 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier on the eve of Victory Day celebration in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Russia's marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9th. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:01:37 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier on the eve of Victory Day celebration in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Russia's marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9th. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Posted: 5/8/2013 10:01:37 AM EST
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of Unknown Soldier on the eve of Victory Day celebration in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Russia's marking the surrender of Nazi Germany in World War II on May 9th. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
