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Defend America on Monday, May 31, 2010 8:15:27 PM
Storm Disrupts Obama Memorial Day Event
By Maya Jackson Randall
Heavy thunderstorms caused President Barack Obama to cancel a Memorial Day wreath-laying ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Ill., on Monday.
Thunder and lightning started rolling in over Elwood, south of Chicago, just as the ceremony was to begin.
“Excuse me, everybody listen up,” Obama told the crowd at the event,
according to a White House pool report. “We are a little bit concerned
about lightning. This may not be safe. A little bit of rain doesn’t
hurt anybody but we don’t want anybody struck by lightning.”
As people trudged, drenched and barefoot, across flooded fields to
take shelter in available vehicles, a wreath Obama laid earlier blew
over. White House spokesman Bill Burton walked van to van in the
downpour to alert attendees that the ceremony would be canceled.
Instead, Obama would visit with service families who had crowded onto
buses.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/05/31/thunderstorm-disrupts-obama-memorial-day-event/