Barack Obama actually said...

This, after all, is what led them to wear the uniform in the first place - their unwavering belief in the idea of America.

It requires standing shoulder-to-shoulder with our veterans and their families after the guns fall silent and the cameras are turned off.

They serve and fight and bleed together out of loyalty not just to a place on a map or a certain kind of people, but to a set of ideals that...

So to the mothers in my life and to the mothers in all our lives, Happy Mother's Day.