Monday 25 May 2009

Obama heads to Arlington cemetery for Memorial Day





By DARLENE SUPERVILLE
Associated Press Writer

President Barack Obama sought to dodge racial controversy on Memorial Day, sending wreaths to a monument for Confederate soldiers and other flowers to a memorial honoring more than 200,000 African-Americans who fought for the Union during the Civil War. Obama, the nation's first black president, planned to continue tradition and...

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