President Obama spoke briefly to reporters about his surprise trip to Dover Air Force Base early this morning to honor 18 Americans recently killed in Afghanistan.
“Obviously it was a sobering reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our young men and women in uniform are engaging in every single day. Not only our troops, but their families as well,” he said.
“Michelle and I are constantly mindful of those sacrifices. And obviously, the burden that both our troops and their families bear in any wartime situation is gonna bear on how I see these conflicts,” he continued. “And it is something that I think abut each and every day.”
Here’s the slideshow of Obama’s visit.
