Photos from operation Iraqi Freedom.

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Caption: Above: Mail Call! It was a red letter day for 5,500 Sailors and aviators aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln when the massive aircraft carrier pulled into Pearl Harbor on April 26. Awaiting them on the pier were 62,000 pounds of mail, the equivalent of eight tractor-trailer loads of letters, packages, magazines ... and even a healthy assortment of bills. The mail had been accumulating at the Pearl Harbor Mail Center as the Lincoln steamed across the Pacific following its lengthy deployment in the Persian Gulf.

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