President Obama on Haiti, One Year Later
January 12, 2011
A message from President Barack Obama:
"One-year anniversaries can sometimes seem an arbitrary symbolic moment, but being reminded of the devastation in Haiti in the wake of the earthquake one year ago serves as an example of why they can be so important as well. The First Lady and Dr. Jill Biden witnessed that devastation on their trip captured below, and as the President makes clear in his statement today, their road back still stretches far ahead:..."