Post by MO on May 25, 2010 23:41:14 GMT -5
....to lay the wreath.
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to spend a long holiday weekend in Chicago.
The White House says Obama and his family will travel to their hometown on Thursday and stay through the weekend. It will be their first trip back home since a visit for Valentine's Day weekend in February 2009.
On Monday, Obama is scheduled to participate in a Memorial Day ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill.
In Obama's absence, Vice President Joe Biden will participate in the customary wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington.
More details about Obama's trip will be released soon.
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKztv1qNMp84JBBjR_YQiypmvyRAD9FTET7O1
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to spend a long holiday weekend in Chicago.
The White House says Obama and his family will travel to their hometown on Thursday and stay through the weekend. It will be their first trip back home since a visit for Valentine's Day weekend in February 2009.
On Monday, Obama is scheduled to participate in a Memorial Day ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill.
In Obama's absence, Vice President Joe Biden will participate in the customary wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington.
More details about Obama's trip will be released soon.
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKztv1qNMp84JBBjR_YQiypmvyRAD9FTET7O1