Sarah westwood is at the white house with the view there. Barbara, lets begin with you. Just tell us what youre hearing from the pentagon. Reporter well, look, ryan, this visit would in fact have been in the works for some time. Weve chatted about that. This is something that involves the maximum amount of president ial security and security always high for a president. But to travel to a war zone, the secret service and the u. S. Military would have been working to the for several weeks to actually plan this out, to secure the airspace as he entered iraq, to ensure that there is security communications, complete lockdown of security for him, the first lady and the entire traveling party to make sure airspace is monitored into that airspace and as they leave. This is a complex event, the secret service, the u. S. Military obviously know how to do it. They did it for george w. Bush, for president obama any number of times that they visited iraq and afghanistan. It comes at an interestin
Fell on the battlefields of iraq and afghanistan have been laid to rest. And earlier we met two gold star mothers. This is just an extraordinary moment here. Lisa lost her son lawrence may 8th, 2005. Beth lost her son nicholas may 8th, 2005. Both young men had been laid to rest next to each other. And the mothers, the gold star mothers, over the last 14 years, have become very close. When i see the pictures of larrys burial, i see the flowers that were left the day before, when we buried our son. So we reached out to each other and got to know each other right away. Right away, yes. And were soul sisters, thats what weve said, about each other. We dearly love each other. Beth is larrys arlington mother, because we live from afar. And when she comes she always gives him a hug for me. Reporter 14 years of these two gold star mothers literally holding on to each other. This is a place, people talking about it as being the saddest acre in america. When you come here, you see this is a plac