The ceremony included re-enactors dressed in military attire from throughout America's history, an actor portraying President Abraham Lincoln reading the Gettysburg Address and several flyovers from World War 2-era airplanes.
The ceremony included re-enactors dressed in military attire from throughout America's history, an actor portraying President Abraham Lincoln reading the Gettysburg Address and several flyovers from World War 2-era airplanes.
“Our men and women in uniform have made us safer and more secure, and we were eternally grateful to them, but war and suffering and hardship still remain in too many corners of the globe. And a lot of those men and women who we celebrate on Veterans Day and Memorial Day come back and find that, when it comes to finding a job or getting the kind of care that they need, we’re not always there the way we need to be.”—Obama, 2012