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Obama Memorial Day Wreath-Laying Need Not Be at Arlington Cemetery

The news that some conservative critics were exacting their pound of flesh from a Democratic president for not laying a wreath this year at Arlington National Cemetery certainly was a reach, especially after the White House revealed that Vice President Joe Biden was going to Arlington -- and that the commander-in-chief would pay his respects at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill. The Lincoln cemetery, 50 miles southwest of Chicago, was not one of the original 14 designated by Congress in 1862 and signed into law by President Lincoln himself – but neither was Arlington, ...

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