After a little fuss about where he'd be doing it, President Obama honored the nation's fallen military in a rain-shortened ceremony at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, Illinois yesterday afternoon. After meeting with with wounded veterans and their families at the Fisher House in Hines, Illinois, Pres. Obama performed a wreath laying at the cemetery. But, as the photos above show, his speech was cut short by the storms that moved through the area yesterday. With the rain interfering with that speech, Pres. Obama spoke to troops at Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, D.C. more ›

The street outside the Fred C. Dames Funeral Home in Joliet was lined with 200 motorcycles yesterday, all mourners paying their respects to U.S. Army Pfc. Michael Pearson, 22, of Bolingbrook, who was one of the 13 people--and three from the Chicago area--that was killed in a mass shooting at Fort Hood earlier this month. The motorcycles outside the funeral home belonged to the Patriot Guard Riders, a group that often attends the funerals of military personnel. more ›