Obama: Nation must do more for fallen heroes

May 25, 2013 @ 11:25 am


A photo of U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Corey Allen Little leans against his tombstone as volunteers place American flags at the graves of military service members at Georgia National Cemetery before the Memorial Day holiday, Saturday, May 25, 2013, in Canton, Ga. Little, 25, who was expecting his first child, was one of seven Marines who died in a helicopter crash Feb. 22, 2012, while training for a deployment to Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Goldman) | Zoom

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must care for the loved ones the fallen leave behind. He says the country must also make sure that all veterans receive the care and benefits they have earned.

Obama says that, above all, the armed forces must have the support needed to carry out their missions at home and abroad.

In the Republican address, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe thanks the nation for its prayers and support following Monday's deadly tornado in his home state. He recalls past natural and man-made disasters in Oklahoma and says that while the state was hard hit, "we're not knocked out."

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Online:

Obama's address: http://www.whitehouse.govRepublican address: http://www.youtube.com/gopweeklyaddress


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  • Rangerhawk wrote...
    Obamapaloosa Tour
    February 15, 2013 5:25 am
    You get what you pay for and you pay with credit. The bill has arrived.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    The middle class is here just to pay the bills
    February 15, 2013 4:23 pm
    and Owebama knows it. You think he "cares" about us? Riiiight. Suuuuure....
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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    ever heard of basic math?
    February 16, 2013 6:54 am
    you can't have your cake and eat it too....our founding fathers pointed out the importance of a "Balance of Power" We do not currently have that now....the country is divided and leaning to far to one side. We are supposed to work together, think together and compromise not scare and threaten.... America is an embarrassment. STOP SPENDING!!!SMALLER GOVT!!!!LESS GOVT CONTROL!!!MORE FREEDOM!!!
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  • hnuh wrote...
    02-18-2013
    February 18, 2013 9:59 am
    0bama puts up another meaningless false choice... By claiming something is a false choice. Stands another straw man up for some good old fashioned assaulting. The one thing 0bama can't even contemplate is reducing the size and scope of the federal leviathan.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Tough job being Prez
    February 18, 2013 11:36 am
    Live like a king while your subject starve...
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  • HLC wrote...
    Separate vacations?
    February 18, 2013 2:33 pm
    Maybe Michelle is positioning herself for a run at the white house in 16 and wants to dump the fool before he drags her down. Makes sense. Or she's just tired of explaining everything to him in case he left his teleprompter home.
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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    It seems any compitent IT team
    February 18, 2013 3:22 pm
    could figure out how to keep comments to one News story and not stack them. Also How to keep bit40 and other spammers out of the forums.
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  • hnuh wrote...
    02-19-2013
    February 19, 2013 9:07 am
    You asked for it, you got it. 0ba-ma.
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  • WAmovesRight wrote...
    When will we all learn...
    February 19, 2013 9:21 am
    ... It's not just the democrats or the republicans... It's ALL OF OF THEM.

    The it us against each other like we're fans of opposing football teams and we just lap it up like a good little dog!

    when will we realize the decisions they make affect all of us much more than they efect those in power? President Obama is not spending us into oblivion... the United States Congress (both chambers) and the White House are doing it... and WE LET THEM.

    We let them when we vote them into office. We empower them when we petition for the endless grants that the US can't afford. We encourage them when we cry out for more from the public coffers becase we WILL get our little piece... etc.

    If we want real change the first finger we point at should be ourselves. Here's the steps:

    Stop with the hateful speech towards each other. Realize we are all in this together. The name calling does nothing but further divide us limiting our pwer to effect change

    Create, not a bi-partisan, but a bi-ideological, citizen committe. This group carefully & methodically lists the top ten priorities for their ideology Iliberal & conservative). We then take the top three non-competing priorities from each group and make one "platfrom". We then COMPROMISE together on a couple of the highest priority competing issues until each side has two of theirs on the list. This will give our platform 10 priorities on the platfrom.

    WE DO NOT CREATE A NEW POLITICAL PARTY... but we do engage every citizen in our country to buy into this "platform for recovery". If we join together as citizens - not of opposite political parties - but of a common desire to restore sanity then we can restore sanity.

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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Owebama presses GOP to halt automatic spending cuts
    February 19, 2013 9:41 am
    Did he do this from the back nine or the front nine? Yeah, while he was off golfing AGAIN, he showed how "concerned" he was about this. Spend...borrow...spend...borrow...that's all the left knows.
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