Rain kept the President from an Armistice Day ceremony that other world leaders attended. The message to the nations have that served with American troops, often under US command: US Presidents, it seems, are happy to send European troops into the face of battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not to travel 50 miles to mourn our shared war dead, writes Kate Maltby.
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