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The nation must never forget the price members of the military paid to protect the United States’ democracy, President Joe Biden said at his Memorial Day Address Monday morning.
These remarks came after Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Virginia.
“We must never forget the lives these flags, flowers and marble markers represent,” Biden said. “A mother, a father, a son a daughter, a sister, a spouse, a friend and American. Every year we remember, and every year it never gets easier.”
Biden’s late son, Beau, was a major at an Army National Guard unit deployed to Iraq in 2008. On Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day, it will be eight years since Beau Biden's death from cancer.
Although Biden acknowledged in his speech that his son did not die on the battlefield, the president said he and first lady Jill Biden take pride in Beau Biden's service.
“I can still hear him say Dad, it’s my duty,” he said. “Duty. That was the code my son lived by, and all those you lost lived by.”
The pain of Beau Biden’s loss is still felt “every day,” Bi...
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