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The popemobile with Pope Benedict XVI drives through the crowd prior to a service in Freiburg, Germany.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Pope Benedict XVI, center, is seen during a service in Freiburg, Germany, the last day of a four-day-visit to his homeland Germany.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Pope Benedict XVI is shielded against the sun during an open-air mass in Freiburg, Germany, Sunday, Sept.25, 2011, the last day of a four-day-visit to his homeland Germany.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

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Pope Benedict XVI approaches a service in Freiburg, Germany, Sunday, Sept.25, 2011, the last day of a four-day-visit to his homeland Germany.(AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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People strike a bell for a mass with Pope Benedict XVI at the airfield in Freiburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

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Priests prepare the communion at a mass with Pope Benedict XVI at the airfield in Freiburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

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Altar girls protect themselves against the cold with rescue blankets as they walk to a mass with Pope Benedict XVI in Freiburg, southwestern Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

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Pilgrims walk to a mass with Pope Benedict XVI on the tarmac of the airport in Freiburg, southwestern Germany. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a meeting with Catholics involved in the Church and society, at the concert hall in Freiburg, southern Germany, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, the last day of his four-day official visit to Germany. (AP Photo/Miro Kuzmanovic, pool)

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Pope Benedict XVI touches a baby as he drives through the crowd in his popemobile before celebrating Mass in Freiburg, Germany, on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011, the last day of a four-day visit to his homeland of Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Pope Benedict XVI arrives in his popemobile to celebrate an open air mass in front of the St. Mary's cathedral in Erfurt, central Germany, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI is on a four-day official visit to his homeland Germany. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Air Force Lt. Col. Tim Richter, chief of radiologiy at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, describes what he is seeing on the center's high-tech diagnostic equipment for treating wounded troops.

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A lot of hands help a wounded U.S. soldier out of a bus in August at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Landstuhl has treated more than 13,000 combat injuries and some 64,000 noncombat injuries from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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** FILE ** German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

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German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle reacts prior to a speech at a meeting of German ambassadors in Berlin on Aug. 29, 2011. (Associated Press)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, for talks on the eurozone's economic problems. (AP Photo/Philippe Wojazer, Pool)

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** FILE ** French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel speak at a press conference during German-French consultations in Freiburg, Germany, in December 2010. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and President Christian Wulff, left, speak to spectators as they attend the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall in Berlin, Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011. Germany marks the 50th anniversary of the day communist East Germany sealed itself off behind the Wall. (Photo/ Markus Schreiber)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS photographs The U.S. team (above) contemplates what might have been after Japan won the Women's World Cup final Sunday in Frankfurt, Germany. Abby Wambach (below) gestures to the crowd after Sunday's loss.