This may be the strangest story I’ve read all week:

U.S. Rep. Baron Hill’s comments to a Memorial Day ceremony in southern Indiana’s Dubois County have upset members of a veterans group who feel they were too political.

Hill, a Democrat, told the Dubois County Veterans Council’s Memorial Day ceremony that President Bush planned to veto a GI Bill approved by Congress. He encouraged the crowd to ask the president to let the bill become law.

“I don’t want to make this political, but the president has said that he is going to veto this bill. For the life of me I don’t understand why,” Hill said in his speech. “And I hope that you’ll take the time, in honor of our veterans, to write to the president of the United States and ask him to change his mind.”

A member of Congress walks into a Memorial Day ceremony where the crowd is largely, if not wholly, comprised of veterans. He makes a comment about how he wishes people would contact the President and ask him not to veto a very bipartisan bill that would provide incredible education benefits to our returning troops. And the veterans are mad?

Color me confused.