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9 photos of world leaders standing in the rain to honor fallen soldiers
President Dwight Eisenhower walks in the rain to the Tomb of Italy’s unknown soldiers in Rome.
President John F. Kennedy and French President Charles DeGaulle stand in the pouring rain at Paris's Arch of Triumph.
President Barack Obama at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Veteran's Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.
Chinese President Xi Jinping bows in the rain at the Monument to the People's Heroes at Tiananmen Square during a ceremony marking the National Day in Beijing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands in the rain during a wreath-laying ceremony marking the anniversary of the Nazi German invasion in 1941.
Watch and hear the rain here.
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev stands in the rain next to Putin during the same wreath-laying ceremony marking the anniversary of the Nazi German invasion.
Canadian President Justin Trudeau stands under an umbrella in the rain to honor those who fought during the Dieppe Raid.
The Dieppe Raid was an Allied assault on the Nazi positions in Dieppe, France, during World War II.
Trudeau then put down the umbrella and said, "As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet and our hair gets wet and our shoes get wet, I think it's all the more fitting that we remember on that day, in Dieppe, the rain wasn't rain, it was bullets."
Watch and hear the rain here.
Trump speaks "in soaking rain" at a WWI commemoration ceremony at Suresnes American Cemetery on Sunday.
Watch the "soaking rain" here.
Source: Washington Examiner
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