CBS Evening News - 2012-05-28

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[0:00] tonight Memorial Day in America the

[0:04] president honors the fallen and pays

[0:06] special tribute to Vietnam veterans came

[0:09] home and sometimes were

[0:10] denigrated when you should have been

[0:13] celebrated gas prices are heading down

[0:15] and consumer confidence is up Jim

[0:18] Axelrod on the prospects for an economic

[0:20] recovery this summer The Massacre of

[0:23] civilians in Syria why can't the World

[0:26] Stop The Killing Elizabeth Palmer and

[0:28] Bob or report and Brian Rooney with the

[0:31] story of fallen heroes lost during World

[0:34] War II and found nearly seven decades

[0:42] later this is the CBS Evening News with

[0:45] Scott

[0:47] py good evening Scott is off I'm Anthony

[0:49] Mason this Memorial Day many Americans

[0:52] are enjoying a day of leisure cookouts

[0:54] and parades shared with friends and

[0:56] family but we've never forgotten the men

[0:58] and women who paid for for the freedom

[1:00] we enjoy this day ceremonies honoring

[1:03] America's War dead were held across the

[1:05] country including two led by the

[1:07] commanderin-chief

[1:12] President Obama began the day on

[1:14] Hallowed Ground Arlington National

[1:17] Cemetery in Virginia where he laid a

[1:19] wreath at the Tomb of the

[1:28] unknowns during the ceremony the

[1:30] president noted that for the first time

[1:32] in 9 years no Americans are fighting in

[1:36] Iraq and that the end of fighting was

[1:38] also near in Afghanistan after a decade

[1:42] under the Dark Cloud of War we can see

[1:46] the light of a new day on the horizon

[1:48] the president and the first lady also

[1:50] made a rare visit to the Vietnam

[1:53] memorial and honored another generation

[1:56] who fought in a deeply unpopular War

[1:59] even though some Amer

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