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Fort Hood's "hug lady" loses battle with breast cancer

Troops in Fort Hood, Texas, are mourning the loss of Elizabeth Laird. She made it her mission to embrace soldiers before they were sent to war or when they came home to the U.S. Jim Axelrod has a report on the life and legacy of the woman who gave more than 500,000 hugs to soldiers at the Texas military base.
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