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RIP Beau Biden

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The Vice President has announced the passing of his son Beau (aka Joseph R. III) due to brain cancer.  The former Delaware AG was planning to run for Governor in 2016.  This is unfortunately not the VP’s first child to predecease him.  He lost his infant daughter along with his first wife in a car crash shortly after his first election to the US Senate in 1972, which also injured Beau and brother Hunter.  Thoughts and prayers with the Biden family.

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  1. From Philly.com

    His wife, Neilla, and three children had been in a horrible car crash on the way home from purchasing the family Christmas tree. His wife and daughter had died, and his two sons, Beau and Hunter, were clinging to their life. Still a few days shy of turning 30, Biden raced home to Wilmington and considered never taking the oath of office.

    Through the support of other senators, Biden agreed to be sworn in the next month, at the hospital bedside of Beau and Hunter. Eventually venturing to Washington, Biden decided that he would take the train every morning from Wilmington and return every night.

    “As a single parent, he decided to be there to put us to bed, to be there when we woke from a bad dream, to make us breakfast, so he’d travel to and from Washington, four hours a day,” Beau Biden told the Denver crowd on Aug. 27, 2008, an emotional speech that introduced the world to a story that his father had told many times. ….

    “The real reason I went home every night was that I needed my children more than they needed me,” he said.

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