President Donald Trump observed Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery Wednesday.
Watch the ceremony and the president’s remarks in the video player above.
The president laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown soldier to honor the nation’s veterans before delivering remarks at the amphitheater.
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Trump’s motorcade took a different route to the revered burial ground instead of traveling over Memorial Bridge and around a traffic circle where he wants to build a triumphal arch.
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Trump’s appearance at the cemetery comes a day after nine Kennedy family members joined several lawsuits seeking to block construction, saying the towering 250-foot arch would cast a shadow over their relatives’ gravesites there.
Trump told veterans gathered in the amphitheater that service members “are indeed our protection in battle.”
He says military families “are amazing” and are “among the very best of our nation.”
Trump also recognized individual veterans and asking them to stand, including a 103-year-old who served in World War II.
