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Now an assistant secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Duckworth has moved from the battlefields of Iraq to the halls of power in Washington, becoming part of a team that is trying to overhaul an agency that's been called moribund and out of touch. (Pierre Kattar/Post)
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