MISSING IN INACTION – AT 8:12 A.M. ET:  There was a D-Day ceremony yesterday in the Virginia town that paid the highest price in casualties on that day:

BEDFORD, Va. (AP) -- In a stirring tribute to the D-Day sacrifices of American soldiers and their allies, the U.S. military's top officer said Sunday that World War II's defining moment should remind all that returning warriors need not "suffer in quiet desperation."

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke in the peaceful setting of this small town, which bore the heaviest share of American losses in the June 6, 1944, landings on the beaches of Normandy. The National D-Day Memorial was established here in 2001 as a tribute to those who died in the invasion of German-occupied Europe.

Adm. Mullen drew a parallel with the needs and aspirations of the men and women returning from today's battlefields, many with the invisible psychological wounds of war.

"They, too, have seen and done things we cannot know," he said. "Their lives, too, are forever changed. And just as previous generations of heroes did, they must likewise adjust themselves to peace."

COMMENT:  Absent:  President Barack Obama, who apparently couldn't be inconvenienced while preparing for last night's music festival at Ford's Theater, his second musical gala of the week.  Gotta hear that beat. 

Obama could have gone to Bedford.  He should've been there.  Of course, he should have been at Arlington on Memorial Day as well.  And he should have been at the Gulf spill many days earlier.

This man has gotten too many passes. 

June 7,  2010