CORONADO, Calif. (AP) -- President Barack Obama says every
American should make a solemn pledge to find some way to support
U.S. troops -- not just on Veterans Day but every day.

Obama made the comments to military personnel on board the USS
Carl Vinson, where he was spending a memorable evening watching a
college basketball game being played on the 95,000-ton Navy warship
that buried Osama bin Laden's body at sea.

Michigan State was playing No. 1 North Carolina in the
first-ever Carrier Classic on a basketball court erected on the
flight deck of the USS Carl Vinson anchored off the coast of San
Diego.

Obama is stopping in San Diego en route to Hawaii for a regional
economic summit, part of a nine-day trip with stops in Australia
and Indonesia.

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