Washington – Obama Honors Sacrifice Made By Nation’s Veterans

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    US President Barack Obama (C) and Major General Michael S. Linnington (L), Commander of the US Army Military District of Washington, participate in a wreath-laying ceremony on Veteran's Day at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 11 November 2012.  EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS / POOLWashington – President Barack Obama paid tribute at a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington Memorial Cemetery to “the heroes over the generations who have served this country of ours with distinction.”

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    He said the wreath he laid earlier at Tomb of the Unknowns was intended to “remember every service member who has ever worn our nation’s uniform.”

    In a speech at the Memorial Amphitheater, he said America will never forget the sacrifice made by its veterans and their families.

    “No ceremony or parade, no hug or handshake is enough to truly honor that service,” the president said, adding that the country must commit every day “to serving you as well as you’ve served us.”

    He spoke of the Sept. 11 generation, “who stepped forward when the Towers fell, and in the years since have stepped into history, writing one of the greatest chapters in military service our country has ever known. You’ve toppled a dictator and battled an insurgency in Iraq. You pushed back the Taliban and decimated al-Qaida in Afghanistan. You delivered justice to Osama bin-Laden.”

    Obama also said this was the first Veterans Day in a decade with no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq, and that a decade of war in Afghanistan is coming to a close.

    Over the next few years, he said, more than 1 million service members will make the transition to civilian life. “As they come home, it falls to us, their fellow citizens, to be there for them and their families, not just now but always.”

    Later, the president and his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, greeted families in the cemetery’s Section 60, home to graves of service members killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.


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    Mark Levin
    Mark Levin
    11 years ago

    In a Memorial Day speech on May 26, 2008, in Las Cruces, NM, Obama said, “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes–and I see many of them in the audience here today.”

    I wonder what The Teleprompter will have him say today.

    11 years ago

    how about bengazhi ? honor the fallen four

    SherryTheNoahide
    SherryTheNoahide
    11 years ago

    To any Veterans who might be reading this article today, I just want to thank you so much for your service!

    There are so many of us in this country, who will never know the great sacrifices you all have made for us. We’ll never know what it’s like to lose a majority of your platoon, or to be so injured from battle, that we’ll never be the same again.

    We will continue to support you & your mission! And when you come home… we promise that we will do our best to provide for & to take care of you. Cuts are ALWAYS being proposed to the VA, but your fellow countrymen won’t let it happen!

    We will continue to support Traumatic Brain Injury research, as well as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, something we know that you, or many of your friends, might be suffering from. We’re going to continue the funding & the research to deal with your injuries, because it’s WORTH IT to us to help you all! Especially after you’ve all done so much for us!

    When you go off on a mission, you don’t stop & ask yourself “Well who is the President?! Is He a Republican or a Democrat?” No way! You set an example for the whole country, by fulfilling your mission, regardless of political party!

    We love you!