local police that student, the afghan national police as well as the afghan civil order police. they have gotten better every single day with a sincere partnership we have had with them and they are getting after it every single day. you live with, you eat with, you fight with these guys beside you every day. every day. we are partnered from the battalion level down to the lowest private. each has a battle buddy. throughout daily operations, raids, patrolling, there is an afghan with us as the all times. when we first came here you had to fight your way inside that village. you have friends out there right now even serving ice cream. that was the best day when we got to sit in the ice cream store with lots of our partners and enjoy it ice cream they were serving. the second battalion 8th
named eisenhower or john f. kennedy or johnson or humphrey in 1968. what lessons can we move from the civil rights movement and apply them today? if anybody is tolerating the silence of this president on our marriage equality, as brian you are working so hard out there, you deserve that battle buddy of president obama, particularly if he says he is a fierce advocate. if you continue to give money to him, then you should watch out. maybe we will see as we did in 2 t fl 2009 a rick warren. i don t think i want to give my endorsement cheaply or prostitute myself to a president s agenda because i am american and i am good enough. for anybody who says we are not good enough, they are per pet actually indulgent and perpetually dissatisfied. hasn t the gay rights community done a good job by putting a lot of pressure on be a wz republicans do?
time i meet with our gold star families and i see the pride in their eyes but also the tears of pain that will never fully go away. each time i sit down at any desk and sign a con dollens letter to the family of the fallen. sometimes a family will write me back and tell me about who they have lost or what their battle buddy meant to them. i received one such letter from an army veteran named paul tarbucks after i visited arlington a couple years ago. paul saw a photograph of me walking through section 60 where the heroes who fell in iraq and afghanistan lay. by a headstone marking the final resting place of staff sergeant
also the tears of pain that will never fully go away. each time i sit down at my desk and sign a condolence letter to the family of the fallen. sometimes a family will write me back and tell me about their daughter or son that they have lost or a friend will write me a letter about what their battle buddy meant to them. i received one such letter from an army veteran named paul tarbocs. after i visited arlington a couple years ago. paul saw a photograph of me walking throug section 60 where the heroes who fell in iraq and afghanistan lay. my headstone resting final marking resting place of sergeant joe namuf.
it s memorial day, may 30th, 2011. president obama is at arlington national sepl tore. live pictures paying tribute to those men and women who gave their lives to defend our country. shortly the president will speak at arlington s amphitheater. his address live, as well as remarks from mike mullen and defense secretary robert gates. arlington national cemetery, 624 acres of hallowed ground, the final resting place for fallen troops from all of america s wars, including the most recent. the war dead from iraq and afghanistan are laid to rest in an area that s known as section 60. our correspondent chris lawrence is there on this memorial day. chris, describe for us if you can the significance of this place that some call the saddest acre in america. reporter: well, suzanne, this is where most of the iraq and afghanistan war dead have been buried. so for a lot of these families the wounds are still very fresh. they have lost their loved ones in the last year, the last