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Actor Robert Duvall, center, flanked by Dorothy Oxendine, national president of the American Gold Star Mothers, left, and Dennnis Cullinan, legislative director of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, say the Pledge of Allegiance on the Mall near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington Wednesday, May 21, 2003 prior to the House National Parks, Recreation and Public Lands subcommittee hearing on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center Act. Duvall testified before the hearing, the first-ever field hearing on the Mall, to authorize the design and construction of a visitors center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)