It’s Veterans Day, and President Obama is making his presidential rounds, thanking our servicemen and women for all of their sacrafices. I’ve shed two single Veterans Day photo-op tears today, and this photo, tweeted out from the @BarackObama account, made me come close to shedding a third. Warning: Please ignore the trolls who take issue with the photo because all the vets pictured are black.
So adorable. Can I get one of those berets on eBay?
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President Obama also met with this stud, 107-year-old Richard Overton, the oldest living WWII vet, who says this about living a long happy life:
Happy Veterans Day!
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