{"id":1497354,"date":"2022-05-30T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T21:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497354"},"modified":"2022-05-30T17:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T21:59:50","slug":"biden-gives-thanks-for-fallen-soldiers-mourns-deceased-son-in-memorial-day-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-gives-thanks-for-fallen-soldiers-mourns-deceased-son-in-memorial-day-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Gives Thanks For Fallen Soldiers, Mourns Deceased Son In Memorial Day Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-gives-thanks-for-fallen-soldiers-mourns-deceased-son-in-memorial-day-remarks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497354&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In Memorial Day remarks on Monday afternoon, President Joe Biden reflected on the lives and sacrifice of American soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey chose a life of purpose,\u201d the commander-in-chief said. \u201cIt sounds corny, like a Memorial Day speech, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart. They chose a life of purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/05\/30\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-the-154th-national-memorial-day-observance\/\">remarks<\/a> \u2014 delivered at Arlington National Cemetery \u2014 occurred on the first Memorial Day after the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan ended which, combined with the Iraq conflict, claimed the lives of 7,054 American service members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lie here in glory and honor \u2026 in graves across our country, in towns large and small \u2014 America\u2019s beloved daughters and sons who dared all, risked all, and gave all to preserve and defend an idea unlike any other in human history: the idea of the United States of America,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd today, as a nation, we undertake a sacred ritual: to reflect and to remember.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden noted that May 30 marks the seven-year anniversary of the death of his eldest son, Beau Biden, who served in the Delaware Army National Guard and deployed to Iraq while serving as the state\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe didn\u2019t die in the line of duty. He came home from Iraq with cancer. It was a horrific cancer that stole \u2026 him from us,\u201d Biden said. \u201cBut still, it always feels to me on Memorial Day \u2014 I see him, not as he was the last time I held his hand, but the day I pinned his bars on him as a second lieutenant. \u2026 Days like this bring back, before your eyes, their smile and their laugh. And the last conversation you had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden emphasized that Americans have a duty to care for the families of service members \u201cwhen they return home and when they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an obligation that unites Americans and brings us together \u2014 to make sure the women and men who are willing to lay down their lives for us get the very best from us in return,\u201d Biden said, adding that lawmakers are seeking to provide healthcare services for veterans impacted by toxic exposures overseas. \u201cWe don\u2019t know how many Americans and service members may have died because of what they were exposed to on the battlefield. The toxic smoke from burn pits near where they were based \u2014 burn pits that incinerated the wastes of war, medical and hazardous material, jet fuel, and so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also paid tribute to the Ukrainians currently fending off an invasion from Russian forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreedom has never been free. Democracy has always required champions,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, today, in the perennial struggle for democracy and freedom, Ukraine and its people are on the frontlines fighting to save their nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut their fight is part of a larger fight that unites all people. It is a fight that so many of the patriots, whose eternal rest is here in these hallowed grounds, were part of,\u201d Biden continued. \u201cA battle between democracy and autocracy, between liberty and repression, between appetites and ambition of a few who forever seek to dominate the lives and liberties of many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden told listeners that \u201cthe soul of America\u201d is \u201cworth the sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur memorial to them must not be just a day when we pause and pray, it must be a daily commitment to act, to come together, to be worthy of the price that was paid.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Memorial Day remarks on Monday afternoon, President Joe Biden reflected on the lives and sacrifice of American soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty. \u201cThey chose a life of purpose,\u201d the commander-in-chief said. \u201cIt sounds corny, like a Memorial Day speech, but I mean it from the bottom of my heart. 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