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VETERANS DAY

Was the vessel that buried bin Laden.

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President Obama will spend Veterans’s Day watching Michigan State and North Carolina square off aboard the USS Carl Vinson—the aircraft carrier that buried Osama bin Laden at sea. It's the first college basketball game to be played on an active Navy aircraft carrier. He'll fly to the Veterans’s Day game after laying a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery. The Vinson is currently docked in San Diego.

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