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Finding Your Roots
Claire Danes Discovers Her Great-Grandfather’s WWI Sacrifice
Claire Danes and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncover the story of her great-grandfather's heroic sacrifice in World War I and the story of her grandmother's journey to see his grave in France.
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