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A photograph purportedly showing a group of female veterans who had all lost one or both legs to combat wounds began circulating online in July 2015: The origins of this meme with its textual overlay describing the women pictured as wounded female veterans are unclear, but it has appeared on several web sites and has been widely shared on Facebook. The women pictured above, however, are not American veterans who suffered losses of limbs to combat injuries. According to a February 2015 article from Globo.com, the photograph shows a group of Brazilian women who gathered together for a calendar photo shoot in order to raise money for amputees who cannot afford prosthetic limbs:
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