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Obama: Honor by remembering stories of fallen
cans see this patriotism with their own eyes or Sgt. Louis Cardin and Army MSgt. Joshua own lives the ideals of opportunity and liberty
by Jim Garamone know someone who exemplifies it, but every Wheeler, the three service members lost in and equality that they fought for. We can serve
DOD News day there are American families who pray for the fight against ISIL. others and contribute to the causes they be-
the sound of a familiar voice when the phone lieved in, and above all, keep their stories alive
It is peaceful at Arlington National Cem- rings or the sound of a loved one’s letter or “Our nation reveals itself not only by the so that, one day, when he grows up and thinks
etery with impeccably cared-for grounds and e-mail arriving,” he said. “More than one mil- people it produces, but by those it remembers,” of his dad, an American like David Wheeler
row after row of headstones seeming to march lion times in our history, it didn’t come. And Obama said. “We do so not just by hoisting a can tell them as well the stories of the lives
down to the Potomac. instead, a car pulled up to the house, and there flag, but by lifting up our neighbors, not just others gave for all of us.”
was a knock on the front door, and the sound by pausing in silence, but by practicing in our
It is a shrine that Americans visit each day of ‘Taps’ floated through a cemetery’s trees.”
to see and touch and be moved — by the pre- DOD photograph by Air Force SMSgt. Adrian Cadiz
cise steps of the sentry at the Tomb of the Un- It is every American’s responsibility to
knowns or the sight of a horse-drawn caisson not forget these heroes, Obama said, and it President Barack Obama, right, Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Marine Corps Gen. Joe Dunford,
taking another fallen service member to rest. must be done by actions, not just by words. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, render honors during a wreath-laying ceremony to mark
He mentioned the presence of more than 350 Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., May 30, 2016.
For many, the area known as Section 60 is participants in the Tragedy Assistance Pro-
the most poignant, if only because it is the gram for Survivors in the audience. “For truly
most recent. Many killed in Iraq and Afghani- remembering and truly honoring these fallen
stan have their final resting place there. On Americans means being there for their parents
Memorial Day, many of those graves have and their spouses and their children,” he said.
flowers or drawings or stones placed atop
them. Keeping stories alive
Americans must remember the fallen and
Section 60 is where President Barack
Obama came to mark his final Memorial Day they must hear their stories, the president said.
as commander in chief. He placed a wreath “My fellow Americans, today and every day
at the Tomb of the Unknowns and addressed listen to the stories these Gold Star families
several thousand people in the Memorial Am- and veterans have to tell,” he said. “Ask about
phitheater. who he or she was, why they volunteered. Hear
from those who loved them about what their
Most solemn obligation smile looked like and their laugh sounded like
Obama said that he has no more solemn and the dreams they had for their lives.”
obligation than the decision to send service In the past year, more than 20 Americans
members into harm’s way. “I think about this have given their lives in Afghanistan. In the
every time I approve an operation as president fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the
— every time, as a husband and father, that I Levant, “three Americans have given their
sign a condolence letter, every time Michelle lives in combat on our behalf, and today I ask
and I sit at the bedside of a wounded warrior you to remember their stories as well,” he said.
or grieve and hug members of a Gold Star fam-
ily,” he said. The president spoke movingly about Navy
POC Charles Keating IV, Marine Corps Staff
He noted that less than 1 percent of Ameri-
cans wear the uniform. “And so few Ameri-
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