I am a Veteran who worked for the VA for thirty years serving my fellow Veterans of all stripes. If Obama had skipped the Placing of the Wreath and given that lame excuse, he would have been impeached before sundown. It is more than "leftist hyperbole." This punk president skipped two important events for Veterans on Veterans Day week. I saw POWs shun Reagan's, Administrator for Veterans Affairs (VA's top guy) for lesser indignities at their national convention. Yet, this draft dodger, by his own admission, gets a pass, and my observation is labeled, "hyperbole." The personality cult protects its "god."