thanks. president joe biden talking to the troops there at joint base langley eustis, telling those trip troops ahead of the memorial day weekend thank you for your service to this country , praising them as the greatest fighting force in history and telling them this country owes you delivering a message of hope to the troops they are as we all wish them a wonderful weekend as we remembe those that paid the ultimate price for this country that men and women who have left their lives serving in our military. as this was happening we got word out of the iowa court room that a verdict has been reached by the iowa jury on the murder trial of the farmworker accused of fatally stabbing the college student molly tibbetts back in july of 2018.
sits across the potomac river from a our neigh s capital. if you ever get a chance to say, it is worth spending some time there. you can visit president kennedy s grave. you can see the eternal flame there, visit the tomb of the unknown soldier and see the hourly changing of the guard or you can just walk among the many rows of graves. there are 270,000 in arlington for trip troops whose final resting place is this place. every year on the thursday before memorial day, a regiment of the old guard, they re called goes out and sets one flag in the ground by each and every one of those markers. it takes a thousand soldiers working four hours to finish that task. they call this job flags in. because of this oshg because of flags in family and friends who visit arlington this weekend for memorial day will find a visible, tangible sign that their loved ones are remembered by their country.