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KUWAIT CITY, KUWAIT - DECEMBER 08: U.S. Army Private Adam Hart from Fort Myers, Florida (L) and Michael Williams from Brantley, Alabama of the 2-82 Field Artillery, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, pass time away as they wait to leave Kuwait and head home the day after exiting service in Iraq on December 8, 2011 at Camp Virginia, near Kuwait City, Kuwait. America's military continues its pullout of Iraq by the end of December after eight years of war and occupation which included the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

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Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. The twenty-second state admitted to the Union, Alabama seceded from the union in 1861 to become part of the Confederate States of America. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, Alabama was readmitted to the union in 1868.

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