Reporter's Emotional Encounter With Obama at Arlington Cemetery's Section 60

Obama makes an emotional connection with NY Daily News reporter James Gordon Meek, who was visiting a friend at Section 60. Presidents don't usually go to Section 60, where soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan are buried, but Obama made an unscheduled visit. See that here. Meek: "He was absolutely somber and serious."

It's a section typically bustling with those visiting loved ones. Every time I go there, more and more graves have been dug into the earth.

The President and First Lady Michelle Obama emerged from their armored limousine hatless in the frigid downpour and took a slow stroll into the soggy rows of white marble headstones.

They stopped first at the grave of Medal of Honor recipient Ross McGinnis, an Army private who threw himself on a grenade in Iraq three years ago to save four buddies.

A sad-faced woman reached for Obama's hand and pointed him to a nearby plot.

The face of another woman - who had grimly sat in a folding chair for hours next to a headstone she'd arranged flowers around - suddenly broadened into a smile as she stood to embrace Obama and thank him for paying his respects.

She was so overcome with emotion that a soldier from the Army's Old Guard had to console her afterward. Read more at NYDN