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There鈥檚 lots of coverage today about what one report called the 鈥渃haotic debut鈥� of the US president鈥檚 latest legal team.

Other important stories have practically no public profile.聽

Every day the Monitor鈥檚 photo editor, Alfredo Sosa, delivers options for the Viewfinder feature at the bottom of this package. They鈥檙e 鈥渙f the day.鈥� Some are joyful, some somber. We choose one to round out the Daily in some way.

One image that he offered yesterday didn鈥檛 make the issue but elbowed back into thought late last night and then again this morning. It at Delaware鈥檚 Dover Air Force Base of a 鈥渢ransfer case鈥� containing the remains of US Army Spc. Gabriel D. Conde.

Conde, and from Loveland, Colo., was killed by small-arms fire April 30 in Afghanistan 鈥� in a war that began when he was 5 years old and from which he was scheduled to be redeployed to Alaska this month. April 30 was also the day a blast in Kabul killed at least 25 people, including nine journalists 鈥� other people doing their jobs.

Wherever we stand on war, on presidencies, on any number of social divides, we can draw inspiration from those devoted to deliberate action that鈥檚 intended to help 鈥� including action that carries great personal risk.

Democracy as a professor writes in Foreign Affairs.

Earlier this week, historian Jon Meacham . 鈥淚 think this is as important a moment as the hours after the Civil War,鈥� he said, 鈥渨hen we were trying to decide what kind of country we were going to truly be. There's a lot to work on. But ultimately, the story has turned out well.鈥�

Now to our five stories for your Friday, looking into new thinking around workforce definitions, citizenship, and a power relationship in a tense region.聽