Once again, someone else’s grief and pain is all about Beau Biden.
President Joe Biden invoked his late eldest son during comments on Wednesday honoring fallen officers at the National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol, as he so often does.
As Fox News noted, the annual event, sponsored by the National Fraternal Order of Police, is intended to honor law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty.
During his remarks, Biden started out well enough.
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He recalled a recent visit to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he met with families of four law enforcement officers who were shot to death while trying to arrest a career criminal wanted on a fugitive warrant. Four other cops were wounded in the April 30 gunfight.
The four murders in Charlotte were the single deadliest episode for law enforcement deaths since a Black Lives Matter sympathizer killed five cops in Dallas in 2016, when Barack Obama was president and Biden was vice president.
“Every time you put on that shield and walk out of the house, your family wonders if that call will come, or if they’ll get that terrible call somewhere during the day or night,” Biden said.
Then, the audience got a familiar and untrue dose of Beau.
“That black hole in the middle of your chest. You feel like you’re being sucked into it. It’s like losing part of your soul,” Biden said.
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“I know. When my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq, came home with Stage 4 glioblastoma and was gonna die – and he did. I know what it’s like. I get a feeling that you all know as well who have lost in the past.”
As the Tampa Free Press has reported, Army National Guard Maj. Beau Biden was deployed to Iraq for a yearlong tour beginning in 2008.
In 2013, he was diagnosed with an aggressive albeit fairly common form of brain cancer.
The cancer killed him in 2015. Beau died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
The president has claimed that Beau’s illness was caused by his exposure to burn pits while serving in Iraq. Yet he also has admitted that he cannot prove it.
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