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The organizers of the Democratic National Convention apologized on Wednesday for accidentally using an image of Soviet-era Russian warships in its backdrop during a tribute to veterans at last week's convention in Charlotte, N.C. The ships were shown on a screen behind 50 veterans assembled onstage Sept. 6 during a presentation by retired Adm. John Nathman. "Due to vendor error, incorrect images appeared briefly on screen behind fifty-one veterans during the convention and the DNCC apologizes for this mistake," a Democratic National Convention Committee spokeswoman said in a statement to the Navy Times.

Mo‘ynaq – Graveyard of Ships in the Desert Many have visited an abandoned city and wondered what catastrophic event could have caused such an exodus from a metropolis once so evidently thriving. Yet these cities are usually hundreds if not thousands of years old, the everyday clamor and cry of civilization just an echo. Visit Mo'ynaq in Uzbekistan, however, and you can see apocalypse right here, right now. The Soviet era sign still welcomes people to the city. Yet there are few visitors who stay more than a few hours. They all leave after they have done looking at what...

Officials evacuate village as explosive ordnance disposal technicians make area safe. By Senior Airman Dilia DeGrego Combined Joint Task Force-82 Public Affairs Office CARZAY, Afghanistan, May 17, 2007 — Afghan National Police and Coalition forces successfully disarmed a 1,200-pound Soviet-era bomb May 15 in the village of Carzay, Kohistan II district, Kapisa province. "The fact that ANP (Afghan National Police) and Coalition forces conducted this as a combined operation demonstrates to the local people that the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is committed to providing them with safety and security." Army Maj. Mark Holler, Task Force Cincinnatus operations officer The bomb...