WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday made their first joint look since her election loss after they noticed Veterans Day collectively by laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Nationwide Cemetery.
Biden honored the service and sacrifice of America’s army veterans, together with those that paid the final word worth, and their households, throughout what was his remaining time talking on the cemetery’s memorial amphitheater in his capability as commander in chief of the U.S. army.
“It’s been the greatest honor of my life, to lead you, to serve you, to care for you, to defend you, just as you defended us, generation after generation after generation,” Biden stated. “You are the greatest fighting force, and this is not hyperbole, the finest fighting force in the history of the world.”
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He reminisced about journeys to U.S. army installations all over the world, and to such historic army websites as Valley Forge and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania.
Biden additionally introduced that the Division of Veterans Affairs is increasing the forms of cancers coated below the PACT Act, laws he signed to broaden well being care companies for veterans who served at army bases the place poisonous smoke billowed from “burn pits.”
Over 1 million veterans and households have already been helped below the legislation, he stated.
The president opened his temporary remarks by stating that America’s “truly sacred obligation” is to organize these it sends into hurt’s manner and look after them after they come residence, or don’t.
“To all the military families, to all those with a loved one still missing or unaccounted for, to all Americans grieving the loss of a loved one who wore the uniform, Jill and I want you to know we see you, we thank you and we’ll never stop working to meet our sacred obligation to you and your family,” he stated.
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Biden’s son, Beau, who Jill helped elevate, served within the Delaware Military Nationwide Guard and deployed to Iraq in 2008 for a couple of yr. He died of mind most cancers in 2015 on the age of 46.
Biden and Harris, accompanied by Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, wore solemn expressions on their faces as they approached the tomb. They positioned their arms over their hearts because the nationwide anthem performed earlier than the wreath-laying, and once more afterward as “Taps” sounded.
The president and first girl Jill Biden had hosted veterans and members of the army group on the White Home earlier than they and Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, departed for the hallowed burial floor on the opposite aspect of the Potomac River from Washington.
It was the primary time that Biden and Harris had been seen collectively in public for the reason that vice chairman misplaced final week’s election to former President Donald Trump.
After the observance, Biden was touring residence to Wilmington, Delaware, for causes the White Home had but to reveal.
