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They thought of memorial day as picnics and barbecues, things like that. it was the death of a loved one in iraq or afghanistan, that changed memorial day for them. that s why they come out here. we spoke with a young mother, vicki bunting, she lost her husband in afghanistan. he had come home for some r&r, spent some time at home. he deployed back to afghanistan. four days back in afghanistan, his vehicle was hit by a road side bomb and he was killed. four days after she found out her husband was dead, she found out she was pregnant. coming here on memorial day is teaching their young son of the father he never knew. this is where we get to know daddy and i can tell him stories here. this is where he knows daddy is. it s tough. he says dada when he sees this grave. it s tough. this is the best i wan do now. this is what we do. reporter: section 60 has been called the saddest acre in america because some of these deaths are the most fresh. the wound is still very raw for ....
Those families. like the mother we spoke with whose son was shot down in a helicopter over iraq. you see a young man and you think, oh, that s him, you know? i live in the country now and i see a helicopter going over, that could have been him flying. reporter: every grave here is a different story. every story is very personal. we ve seen people leave something like a cap of a beer bottle on a grave which means something to that family. we saw people celebrating with toasts of champagne and others very, very somber, crying at the grave. it s a very, very personal, personal experience. because these wars in iraq and afghanistan are so recent, there s no national memorial like world war ii or veterans. so because this cemetery is so close to the nation s capital, especially on a day like memorial day, this has become ....
teenage girls. and hackers tapping into something important, new targets, and get dangerously close to u.s. military secrets. the rash of online attacks and the threat to internet security and to homeland security. wolf blitzer is off. i m candy crowley and you re in the situation room. on this memorial day, sarah palin is doing some of the things she did best, creates suspense and drums up suspension. vice presidential nominee and reality tv star is not saying whether she will added a presidential candidate to her resume but republican contenders on the trail today. jim acosta is in gettysburg, pennsylvania, where palin arrived just moments ago. jim? reporter: candy, sarah palin was asked today by a reporter whether or not she was running for president and she answered that she is contemplating a run for the white house but more importantly, another question could be asked and that is, does all of this look like she s running for president? the answer just might ....
Us. rape by soldiers was common, this prisoner tells me. we all knew it was going on. they all have similar accounts. all talk about cell phones. mobile phone video of rape, there were lots of them, he says. in an odd twist of fate, the rebel in charge of the prisoners, a former pilot, knows some of his captives, vouches for them. he s a flight engineer. this one is a flight engineer, too, and they will tear him back to his family because i know his father, i know his mother, and i know his brothers. he agrees, tells me he was an aircraft engineer, given only a few hours weapons training and sent direct to the front line. they all say that their commanders lied to them. they told us we would be fighting al qaeda and algerians, ....