Joint service ceremonial units participate in a full honors funeral for Melvin Laird at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 19, 2017. Melvin Laird, the former secretary of defense who ended the unpopular military draft and initiated withdrawal of troops from the Vietnam War, died November 16, 2016, at the age of 94.

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