Obama to attend memorial Tuesday

November 10, 2009 at 4:33AM

President Obama is delaying his long-planned trip to Asia by a day so he can attend today's memorial service at Fort Hood and pay homage to the victims of last week's shooting spree. He and the First Lady will fly to the sprawling Army post in central Texas this morning to visit privately with the families of the 13 people fatally shot on Thursday.

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