President
Joe Biden, along with Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday participated in
a wreath-laying ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery’s ‘Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier’ to pay their respects to martyred soldiers.

Biden and
Harris were joined by three former US Presidents, Barack Obama, Geroge W Bush
and Bill Clinton, for the somber ceremony, AFP reported. Former first ladies
Michell Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton were also among the attendees.

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“100 years ago,
on Inauguration Day, Congress decided that an unidentified soldier who died in
World War I would are buried at that spot, and for 100 years, that has been a
sacred spot,” CNN quoted Presidential historian Timothy Naftali saying as he
shed light on the importance of the ceremony.

“I cannot
imagine a more poignant place for our former presidents to gather to deliver a
message, a visual message of unity, at a time of anxiety, pain and suffering in
our country.”

Naftali
further stated that the ceremony also reminds that America’s military might comes
from the people.

“I think it’s also appropriate that this laying on of hands of the former
presidents with President Biden is occurring at a national sacred spot also at
the beating heart of our military,” he said.

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Biden was
greeted by a 21-gun salute as he arrived at the cemetery in Virginia, about a 20-minute
drive from the Capitol Building, where he was sworn-in as the 46th
President of the United States just hours earlier.

Biden and
Harris, the first woman Vice President in US history, saluted as a service
member played the haunting notes of ‘Taps’.

Biden will
later be escorted to the White House for the first time as President, where he
is expected to sign as many as 15 executive actions as he seeks to being
unwinding former President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, climate
change, foreign policy and other key issues.