Last year Barack Obama made the mistake of recognizing dead veterans in the audience(?) during his Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces,(Here is the Video)well this year he happens to make the same mistake in Memorial day address to the Nation:
(AP)– President Barack Obama saluted veterans and urged his countrymen to do the same this Memorial Day weekend, saying the nation has not always paid them proper respect.
In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama said people can honor veterans by sending a letter or care package to troops overseas, volunteering at health clinics or taking supplies to a homeless veterans center. He said it could also mean something as simple as saying "thank you" to a veteran walking by on the street.
"We have a responsibility to serve all of them as well as they serve all of us," Obama said. "And yet, all too often in recent years and decades, we, as a nation, have failed to live up to that responsibility. We have failed to give them the support they need or pay them the respect they deserve.
"That is a betrayal of the sacred trust that America has with all who wear and all who have worn the proud uniform of our country," he said.
Well! mr. President log on through your blackberry to Wikipedia and see the description of Memorial Day - Honor U.S. men and women who died while in the military service., While on veterans Day we we salute our military men and women.
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Memorial Day is, as you point out, exclusively for those who gave "the last full measure of devotion." See: It's For Them (http://emmeffemm.com/id83.html).
--Mike Murray
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