Arlington National Cemetery: Obama marks Memorial Day with the Country
Arlington National Cemetery: Latest News Update President Barack Obama has led the nation’s Memorial Day celebration on Monday, laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the unknown and stating that Americans should “debt to our fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”
“The blessings we enjoy as Americans came to the expensive cost,” Obama told the crowd at Memorial Cemetery in the amphitheater. ”For those of you who are mourning the loss of a loved one today, my heart is with you. … This day is about you. And the fallen heroes that you love.”
Servicemen and women who perished while serving their country, “made themselves until they had nothing more to give,” he said. ”It is their courage, their selflessness, devotion to duty, which this country has suffered through all the trials and will support us through all the trials in the future.”
We need to do “their memories close to our hearts, and (emphasis) on the example they set,” he said.
Obama visited Arlington in Section 60 – burial in the first place for soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Earlier in the day, the president and first lady, Michelle Obama held a breakfast for Gold Star families at the White House.
Gold Star families who lost relatives in the army.
The President joined the ceremony at Arlington Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen. Both men retire at the end of this year.
“It is up to us to be worthy of the victim” died, “Gates said. ”For my whole life, I will keep these brave patriots and their families in my heart.”
“God bless our fallen, missing persons and their families,” Mullen said. ”And God Bless America.”
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