Martin joined the other men in formation outside the redbrick headquarters building at Camp Lejeune.

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Others gathered in Munich and the northern city of Hamburg, where they braved a cold night Sunday after setting up camp outside the HSH Nordbank headquarters.

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In December, shortly before the battalion shipped out for Afghanistan, Bravo Company commander Brent Jones gathered his 170 men outside the brick headquarters building at Camp Lejeune, N.

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Over the weekend the rebels, who say they are protecting the area's Tutsi minority, captured a major army camp at Rumangabo and the headquarters of Virunga national park.

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