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Months after they fled their country, thousands of Afghan refugees remain in temporary housing on U.S. military bases across the country. Local district attorney John Kellner, a Marine Corps reservist, recently returned from Fort Pickett, Virginia, where he helped refugees waiting to move to more permanent homes around the country.