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Families have used religious symbols -- Jewish Star of David, the Christian cross and the Islamic crescent and star -- to honor their loved ones on headstones and markers. Sgt. Patrick Stewart's family seek to have the symbol of his choice from his religion: the Wiccan pentacle.

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