President Barack Obama stands next to Major General Michael S. Linnington as he prepares to lay the wreath in front of the Tomb of the Unknowns during the Presidential Wreath-Laying Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11, 2012 Arlington, Virginia
*Delivering a speech during a Sunday ceremony at the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery, President Obama applauded the efforts of service members and celebrated the diminished number of U.S. military involvements.
“This is the first Veterans Day in a decade in which there are no American troops fighting and dying in Iraq. Thirty-three thousand of our troops have now returned from Afghanistan, and the transition there is underway,” he said.
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