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**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before 3 a.m. ET on Monday, Sept. 20, 2021. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** Lt. Col. Joseph Mason, chaplain for the First Styker Brigade, which is deploying to Iraq, at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 30, 2021. Though the mission may have dropped from public attention, the U.S. still has boots on the ground in Iraq, the other nation that was invaded along with Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. (Michael Ciaglo/The New York Times) XNYT32 XNYT32

Meet some of the U.S. troops deploying to Iraq; many were toddlers on 9/11

Although the mission may have dropped from public attention, the U.S. still has boots on the ground in the other nation it invaded after 9/11. About 2,500 U.S. troops are in Iraq now. Here is a closer look at six soldiers who were just deploying. VIEW

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FILE – In this Sept. 10, 2021, President Joe Biden, with first lady Jill Biden, speaks during a visit at Brookland Middle School in northeast Washington. Biden has encouraged every school district to promote vaccines, including with on-site clinics, to protect students as they return to school amid a resurgence of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) VLM804 VLM804

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Girls attending class at a school for girls in Kabul on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Afghanistan’s new government is likely to severely restrict education for girls and women despite the Taliban’s claims that schooling will eventually resume. last week. (Victor J. Blue/The New York Times)

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FILE – In this June 13, 2019, file photo a dentist smooths out the edges of new 3D printed dentures in Huntsville, Texas. Dental work for Medicare recipients. An end to sky’s-the-limit pricing on prescription drugs. Coverage for low-income people locked out of Medicaid because of political battles. Those are just some of the changes to health care that Democrats want to achieve with President Joe Biden’s massive “Build Back Better” plan. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP, File) TXHOU201 TXHOU201

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The fossils of a 43 million-year-old four-legged prehistoric whale known as the “Phiomicetus Anubis,” right, in an evolution of whales from land to sea, which was unearthed over a decade ago in Fayoum in the Western Desert of Egypt, at the university’s paleontology department lab, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) NM504 NM504

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