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The event will honor the memory of those lost on 9/11, including 23 Greenwich residents with a 21-gun salute, music, candle-lighting ceremony, laying of flowers by the public and special tributes to the first responders who were killed.
Many Ways to Mark Anniversary Sophia Hollander 2011
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So Hu came to Washington, met with some CEOs, had a nice dinner and a 21-gun salute, and opened the Chinese purse to the tune of $45 billion in new business between China and the United States.
Zachary Karabell: Hu's on First -- China and the United States Zachary Karabell 2011
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At the end of the Mass, a 21-gun salute reverberated through the capital.
World Leaders Gather to Mourn Vaclav Havel Gordon Fairclough 2011
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They told him to stop telling people he had served in Vietnam and been a POW but allowed him to volunteer, under supervision, in the honor guard performing 21-gun salutes at veterans 'funerals.
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This horse sheiss stuff about classified service records being declassified and read at funerals, classified missions that are still classified, service in Vietnam that cannot be verified by official records, and on and on, is just too much to fathom. 21-gun salutes for someone who doesn't rate a 21 gun salute.
BERNARD RAMSEY 2010
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“I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear …” The audience is rapturous as “Hail to the Chief” plays admidst a 21-gun salue.
Live Blog: The Inauguration of Barack Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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(Soundbite of 21-gun salute) BOWMAN: Jenkins was scheduled to go on leave November 1st to visit his mother in Ohio.
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(Soundbite of 21-gun salute) BOWMAN: Jenkins was scheduled to go on leave November 1st to visit his mother in Ohio.
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“I, Barack Hussein Obama, do solemnly swear …” The audience is rapturous as “Hail to the Chief” plays admidst a 21-gun salue.
Live Blog: The Inauguration of Barack Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Being just one guy, he shot the monument seven times in a scaled-down personal version of a 21-gun salute.
Harold allinson 2010
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