Obama Calls Trip to Dover 'Sobering'

After a surprise trip to Dover Air Force Base late Wednesday night to honor Americans killed in Afghanistan, President Obama told reporters: “It was a sobering reminder of the extraordinary sacrifices that our young men and women in uniform are engaging in every single day... Michelle and I are constantly mindful of those sacrifices." Obama, who is weighing the possibility of a significant increase in troop levels in Afghanistan, said Thursday at the White House that he thinks of those sacrifices “each and every day." Obama’s visit to Dover coincided with the arrival of 18 fallen soldiers and DEA agents who were killed on Monday.