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June 01, 2005
President Bush Visits Arlington National Cemetery - Memorial Day Weekend 2005
Memorial Day is a day of rememberance for those who have passed while serving our nation. During 2005's Memorial Day, President Bush visited the Arlington Cemetery. Bush had previously made a trip to Arlington in 2003. The Arlington Cemetery is designated officially as a military cemetery, veterans from all of our nation's wars are buried at Arlington.
During his recent visit to Arlington on Memorial Day, George Bush read off letters of soldiers who had been killed in combat.
Bush was quoted as saying, "We must honor them by completing the mission for which they gave their lives", also in attendance along with Bush at the Arlington Cemetery were the families of soldiers who died in combat and also many soldiers who had been wounded fighting in Iraq.
Many of the letters that President Bush read throughout the Memorial Day address at the Arlington Cemetery were letters that were written by soldiers to only be opened if their lives were lost in combat.
The letters read by Bush during his Memorial Day deliverance drew large applauses and were the cause of tears from the audience in Arlington as they told tales of self sacrafice for a greater cause, such as the letter written by Michael Evans, "My death will mean nothing if you stop now. I know it'll be hard, but I gave my life so you could live, not just live, but live free."
The last time President Bush visited the Arligton National Cemetery in 2003 there had been 160 American soldiers killed in Iraq, by Memorial Day 2005 there are over 1,650 casualties. There are over 260,000 people buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Posted by Tuck at June 1, 2005 04:41 PM
