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Veterans Day saw Barack Obama lay the traditional Presidential wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington Cemetery. He then broke with tradition, CBS anchor Katie Couric narrated, by inspecting the tombs in the cemetery's Section 60, the burial ground for the war dead of Iraq and Afghanistan. ABC assigned David Wright for A Closer Look at the Commander-in-Chief's assertion during Tuesday's memorial at Fort Hood that "this generation has more than proved itself the equal of those who have come before." Wright wondered whether World War II's Greatest Generation would agree. He went to the DC Mall for some vox pop and found no gainsayers.
On this Veterans Day, CBS' David Martin did double duty from the Pentagon. His news story on Fort Hood at the top of the newscast was followed by a closing feature on Brian Brennan, a legless army lieutenant whom Martin first profiled in May. Back then he told us about the war cry Curahee invoked at Brennan's bedside by David Petraeus. The sound of the word from the general's lips stirred the young officer out of an 18-month unresponsive coma: "His stumps are banging up and down on the sheets. His head is moving around and very clearly responding to his unit's nickname." Now the general and the Afghanistan veteran go jogging together, Brennan running on metal legs. Martin caught Petraeus' mock resentment that the lieutenant does not have to stretch out his calves first.
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