to honor them, take us behind the scenes. sacred duty is the story of the old guard of arlington. the young soldiers who were 71 years have performed military honor funerals in a cemetery and court of the tomb of the unknowns soldiers. we approached every funeral with the same standard, perfection because we knew even though we might perform 20 or 30 funerals a day, it was a once in the lifetime we want to do make sure we got everything right because we wanted to give that family is one last final and indelible image of offering to pay tribute on behalf of the nation to sacrifice their level one. shannon: the bow cast interesting history of all those things, the land and how they cemetery came to be in the real inside scoop on the people who are serving there now. before you go i want to ask you quickly about this idea that the
usually ran five days a week, have run since last month. i want to get straight to this. i can t imagine you work somewhere for 25 years and this happens. some of the cartoons your publisher refused to print was the president laying a wreath on the tomb of the unknowns. a child being bulled away from their parents as they tried to cross the border. why were these rejected? did your editors give you reasons? no, they didn t give me any reason at all. but the common theme in all the ones that have been rejected, i d say 90% of them have something to do with trump.
need to change it. they have the incentive to do so because we haven t followed the laws on the books. i hope that we can come to an agreement because that s the important thing, to do something legislatively. shannon: everybody agrees. listen, hhs is saying we can do more if you want us to. we are not equipped financially but if you want us to we are going to need more money. that requires congress. we will watch and wait. thank you both. thank you. shannon: the president paying tribute at arlington national cemetery to the nation s fallen heroes. but as jennifer griffin reports this memorial day arlington is facing a growing dilemma. they were generals and privates, captains and corporals of every race, color and of every creed. the president was joined by his cabinet secretaries and families of the fallen at arlington national cemetery to mark memorial day by laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns.
fingers, the kids matter. what our lawmakers need to decide come if you are not going to enforce the law change the law. the recently have people coming in is they have the incentive to do so because we haven t followed the law on the books. i hope we can come to an agreement because that is important, to do something legislatively. we can do more if you want us to,, we are not equipped financially to do it but if you want us to we need more money. that requires congress. we watch and wait, thank you both. the pres. paying tribute at arlington national cemetery to s the nation s fallen heroes but as jennifer griffin reports this memorial day arlington is facing a growing dilemma. they were generals and privates, captains and corporals of every race, color and creed. the pres. was joined by his cabinet secretaries and families of the fallen at arlington national cemetery to mark memorial day by laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns.
who have fallen. one as young as 7 months old, but every year each generation keeps coming to make sure that they continue to mark this day together as a family. you know, erica, if i can say this, as they do the tomb the placement of the wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, which doesn t just contain one soldier, it contains the remain of four service members, we re not quite sure which services they represent, and that s why it is called the tomb of the unknowns, it is just fascinating that this same kind of ceremony is taking place all over the world. i had opportunities to speak at many of the american battlefield cemeteries in europe, where local citizens and normandy, france, and netherlands and luxembourg, they literally, the local citizens of those countries adopt the graves of american soldiers and take care of those graves because they realize how much they contributed to the liberation of their countries. and that s an awe inspiring