{"id":711503,"date":"2021-09-02T22:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T02:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=711503"},"modified":"2021-09-02T22:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T02:05:31","slug":"biden-visits-wounded-warriors-at-walter-reed-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-visits-wounded-warriors-at-walter-reed-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Visits Wounded Warriors At Walter Reed Hospital"},"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\">16<\/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-visits-wounded-warriors-at-walter-reed-hospital%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=711503&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>President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden met with wounded service members Thursday evening at the Walter Reed National Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The trip was not publicly announced by the White House prior to the president\u2019s arrival. Biden and the first lady\u2019s visit follows the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, and some Americans injured in the recent suicide bombing at the Kabul airport are being treated at the facility. The White House did not say whether the president specifically met with those injured in the Kabul attack.<\/p>\n<p>The terror attack, carried out by ISIS-K on Aug. 26 as swarms of people flocked to the Kabul airport hoping to be evacuated, killed 13 U.S. service members and injured 22 others. Many Afghans were also killed and injured during the attack. The U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/27\/us-military-responds-airstrike-afghanistan-isis-k-deadly-terror-attack-kabul\/\">responded<\/a>&nbsp;one day later with an air strike that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/28\/pentagon-confirms-two-high-profile-isis-targets-killed-drone-strike-one-wounded\/\">killed<\/a> two ISIS targets and left a third wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Biden attended the dignified transfer of the 13 killed service members on Sunday. He spoke with the family members of the heroes, though the conversations sparked mixed reactions. At least one family \u2013 that of Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum \u2013 slammed the president afterwards, with McCollum\u2019s sister saying that the president showed \u201ca total disregard to the loss of our Marine.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7275427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"40\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7275427\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7275427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden(C) attends the dignified transfer of the remains of fallen service members at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, August, 29, 2021, after 13 members of the US military were killed in Afghanistan last week. - President Joe Biden prepared Sunday at a US military base to receive the remains of the 13 American service members killed in an attack in Kabul, a solemn ritual that comes amid fierce criticism of his handling of the Afghanistan crisis. Biden and his wife, Jill, both wearing black and with black face masks, first met far from the cameras with relatives of the dead in a special family center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.The base, on the US East Coast about two hours from Washington, is synonymous with the painful return of service members who have fallen in combat. (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-192x120.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-620x388-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-768x481-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-1536x962-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1234942818-2048x1282-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7275427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TOPSHOT \u2013 US President Joe Biden(C) attends the dignified transfer of the remains of fallen service members at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, August, 29, 2021, after 13 members of the US military were killed in Afghanistan&nbsp; (Photo by SAUL LOEB \/ AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t fuck up as bad as he did and say you\u2019re sorry,\u201d Roice McCollum, the Marine\u2019s sister, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/biden-meets-with-families-of-service-members-killed-in-kabul-as-us-races-to-exit-afghanistan\/2021\/08\/29\/c185ed78-08ca-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis did not need to happen, and every life is on his hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Afghanistan drawdown and in the wake of the terror attack, Biden has repeatedly brought up his son Beau Biden, who served in the Army in Iraq. Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and Biden spent time at Walter Reed amid his son\u2019s diagnosis, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-09-03\/biden-visits-wounded-service-members-at-walter-reed-hospital\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/joe-biden-keeping-aug-31-afghanistan-withdrawal-date\/\">defended<\/a> his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan and claimed that there was no way to avoid the chaos that unfolded on the ground. He noted that the Taliban\u2019s swift takeover was unexpected, but <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/white-house-messaging-afghanistan-rapid-makeover\/\">claimed<\/a> the administration was prepared for every contingency.<\/p>\n<p>The president was pressed about whether he\u2019d stick to the Aug. 31 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/biden-milley-afghanistan-taliban\/\">withdrawal<\/a> deadline after the Taliban took over Kabul. He ultimately decided to keep the date, although doing so meant breaking a promise to remain in the country until every American was evacuated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden met with wounded service members Thursday evening at the Walter Reed National Medical Center.The trip was not publicly announced by the White &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}