In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].

[EX Q]: Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama used a Memorial Day ceremony to say it is time for America to properly welcome home Vietnam veterans and show them and their families the respect and gratitude they deserved but didn't receive decades ago. "You came home and sometimes were denigrated when you should have been celebrated," Obama said beneath a scorching sun at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. "It was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened. That's why here today, we resolve that it will not happen again." The event, which launched a 13-year Vietnam War 50th anniversary commemoration, was the culmination of a day of somber events on the annual holiday honoring America's war dead.NEW: President Obama calls the denigration of Vietnam veterans a "national shame""America will be there for you," Obama tells veterans and their familiesMemorial Day launches a 13-year commemoration of the Vietnam War's 50th anniversaryObama lays a wreath to the fallen at Arlington National Cemetery 
 Question:This year marks the 50th anniversary of the _ deploying a significant military presence in Vietnam.
[EX A]: America

[EX Q]: A convicted child molester claimed he abducted a young boy who looked like Etan Patz the same day in 1979 that the 6-year-old went missing, a former federal prosecutor told a jury Monday at the trial of another man accused of murder. Key defense witness Stuart GraBois recounted how, once ruling out family members as suspects, he located Jose Ramos in prison in the late 1980s after learning the Ramos had ties to a woman who was once used by the family to walk Etan home from school during a bus driver strike. The former assistant to then-US Attorney Rudy Giuliani described soothing Ramos with small talk before suddenly asking him, 'How many times did you have sex with Etan Patz?'Key defense witness Stuart GraBois, a former prosecutor, testified Jose Ramos told him in 1988 he lured Etan Patz to his home May 25, 1979Ramos, a convicted child molester, claimed he put Etan on subway train after he rejected his advancesRamos, 71, has threatened to plead the 5th if called to testify in murder trial of Pedro HernandezHernandez, 54, confessed he choked Etan after luring him with the promise of a soda and then dumped his bagged bodyRamos served 27 years in Pennsylvania for rape and molestation of three young boys in the 1980s 
 Question:But with testimony about Ramos' alleged confession and by highlighting his history of molesting children, the defense has sought to portray him as a more plausible suspect than the 54-year-old _.
[EX A]: Pedro Hernandez

[EX Q]: Vladimir Putin is 'alive' but 'neutralised' as shadowy security chiefs stage a stealthy coup in Moscow, it was claimed last night. Former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev was behind the plot, claimed chairman of the pro-Kremlin national Islamic Committee, Geydar Dzhemal. There have been no confirmed sightings of Putin for nine days, while in the febrile atmosphere engulfing Moscow a convoy of large trucks parked outside the Kremlin fueled rumours of a flit by the president. Scroll down for video Russian president Vladimir Putin has not been seen in public for the past nine days fueling coup rumours Putin, left, supposedly met the chairman of the supreme court Vyacheslav Lebedev, right, on Friday, however, it is now thought the video footage released by Putin loyalists may have been several years oldVladimir Putin is supposed to hold public meetings on MondayThe Russian leader has not been seen in public for the past nine daysPutin reportedly met the head of the Supreme Court on Friday for talksHowever, the video is now believed to have been taken from file footage 
 Question:Software experts in Russia yesterday suggested the pictures of _ meeting Lebedev, supposedly taken Friday, were created in 2011 and modified a year later.
[EX A]:
Vladimir Putin

