Obama honors veterans’ sacrifice
He visits Virginia cemetery’s tombs of Afghan, Iraq war dead
Posted: November 12, 2009 at 5:39 a.m.
Sgt. Eddie Stewart makes room on his lap for his son Damarion Stewart as he, Sgt. Larry Shepherd, left, and close to 50 other veterans are honored during a veterans day ceremony at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock on Wednesday.
On a cold, rain-soaked Veterans Day, President Barack Obama walked slowly through the white, stone markers at the section of Arlington National Cemetery reserved for troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the two wars he oversees as commander in chief.
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