ARLINGTON, Virginia, May 28 -- President Biden issued the following remarks on May 27, 2024, on the 156th national Memorial Day observance at Arlington National Cemetery: * * * THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you, thank you, thank you. Please be seated. One hundred and sixty years ago this month, in the midst of the Civil War, the first American soldier was laid to rest at these hallowed grounds. Private William Christman, a farmworker from Pennsylvania, had enlisted just seven we  more