PROPER TRIBUTES - AT 6:25 P.M. ET:  Funerals are being held throughout America for the victims of the Fort Hood gunman.  Ordinary Americans know how to do this far better than the commander-in-chief who presumes to lead them:

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- The hundreds of people who lined the main street of a small Indiana city Saturday fell solemnly silent as a white hearse passed by on its way to the church. Mourners streamed into a Wisconsin gymnasium to remember a soldier who once promised to take down Osama bin Laden.

Instead, he was taken down by one of bin Laden's disciples because political correctness allowed a fanatic to serve as an Army doctor.

Across the country, many stood before several flag-draped coffins during funeral services for several of the 13 victims of the Nov. 5 shootings in Fort Hood, Texas.

In Plymouth, Ind. Sheila Ellabarger had placed two foot-high American flags in the grass where she watched the procession for Army Staff Sgt. Justin DeCrow. She said her children went to school with DeCrow and his wife -- his high school sweetheart -- and she knew other members of his family.

''He was killed by a terrorist in my mind but he was still killed in the line of duty. We owe him a debt of gratitude, him and his family and the other soldiers. We owe them our lives, our freedom,'' Ellabarger said.

COMMENT:  And the president of the United States - see story just below - ridicules the idea of a Congressional probe into the worst terror attack on American soil since 9-11.

November 14, 2009