The grieving and the reverent arrived early at Arlington National Cemetery, some seeking solace beside headstones of white marble in the solemn burial grounds and others gathering to hear President Obama speak on the first Memorial Day of his second term.
President Barack Obama attended Memorial Day services at Arlington National Cemetery on Sunday where he gave a speech and layed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
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It was a day when the toll of American wars was honored in small towns and leafy suburbs and downtown parades across the country, with American flags clutched by the young and the old and waving from houses and civic buildings and grave sites.
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Dare we to ask: ‘was it worth dying for?’ I cannot think of any of the wars after World War II that ‘it was worth dying for’.