Today, November 11, 2012, is Veteran's Day. A day when we reflect on this nation's wars and honor those who have fought those wars to insure the freedoms we have today, especially those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice to preserve those freedoms. It's a day of parades and speeches, a day the President travels from the White House to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a somber ceremony honoring those who died in war without identity and never returned home. President's have paid homage to these honored war dead every year that I can remember.....but not this year!
President Obama, after the embarrassment handed him in last week's mid-term elections, felt the need to run and hide in some far away land. Thus, he spent this Veteran's Day in Indonesia honoring the veterans of that country on its Heroes Day.
As a veteran, I respect the President as Commander-in-Chief, regardless of political affiliation. But for the President to ignore our veterans on Veterans Day, I find it to be immoral and disgusting. One has to wonder, does he really care.....and what would President Bush have done??
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