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  • My Solemn Meeting on Veterans Day With President Obama at My Friend's Resting Place in Arlington

    11/13/2009 10:44:50 AM PST · by kristinn · 60 replies · 3,057+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | Thursday, November 12, 2009 | James Gordon Meek
    He didn't introduce himself. He didn't have to. President Obama simply stuck out his hand and asked for my name as he stepped toward me amid a bone-chilling drizzle in the Gardens of Stone. This was Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery. I wasn't there as a reporter, but to visit some friends and family buried there when Obama made an unscheduled stop - a rare presidential walk among what Lincoln called America's "honored dead" - after laying a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. What I got was an unexpected look into the eyes of a...