Here is a hint- the battlefield was in Gettsyburg PA.
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Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address at the ceremony to dedicate the military cemetery there.
No. VP Joe Biden is expected to represent the president in the ceremony this year.
To finish what the soldiers started by winning the Civil War.
To finish what the soldiers started by winning the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln began his now famous Gettysburg Address with these words. It was a speech given at the dedication ceremony of the cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield in November 1863.
The National Veteran's Day ceremony takes place at Arlington National Cemetery, outside of Washington. DC.
Arlington National Cemetery
No, the election of a president is a civic exercise. The inauguration of a president, however, is a day of considerable ceremony.
Inauguration ceremony
No, there is not mention that President Obama missed another wreath laying ceremony on this Veteran's Day, November 11, 2013 because he was on vacation.
The president and his family decided to spend the long Memorial Day holiday weekend at their Chicago residence, where they hadn't been in more than a year. The president was scheduled to return to the White House on Monday after paying respects to the nation's war dead during Memorial Day observances at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., south of Chicago. The ceremony was cancelled, however, because of stormy weather and lightning. Some veterans groups criticized Obama for not attending the traditional wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Obama helped lay a wreath at Arlington for Memorial Day 2009, but Vice President Joe Biden attended the 2010 ceremony in the president's absence.