Paying his respects to the nation's veterans.
Instead of choosing "narrow self-interests," today's veterans have "chosen the opposite," President Barack Obama just said at Arlington National Cemetery, where he is delivering an address on this Veterans Day.
Many of those serving now, Obama noted, have "endured tour after tour" in the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The nation, he said, owes them thanks.
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Update at 11:51 a.m. ET. Here is the audio of the president's address:
Update at 11:41 a.m ET: When veterans take off their uniforms, "our obligations to them" do not end, the president just said.
But, he added, "there have been times when we as a nation have betrayed that trust." Too many veterans of the Vietnam War, he said, came home to "condemnation and neglect ... something that will never happen again."
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