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Article: United States: America Marks Memorial Day, Honors War Dead.
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- Thai Press Reports
- Article date:
- May 27, 2009
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Section: General News - Americans are marking the Memorial Day holiday, when the nation honors its war dead. President Barack Obama led the observances at the nation's best-known military cemetery.
A short drive from the White House lies Arlington National Cemetery.
It is holy ground to members of the military and their families - its gently sloping lawns covered with endless rows of burial markers.
There, surrounded by the graves of countless war dead, from the Revolutionary War to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama delivered his first Memorial Day address.
He talked about the plots of land where old soldiers ...