The late Beau Biden was a member of the Delaware Army National Guard and was deplayed to Iraq in 2008 as an Army lawyer. Biden is the first president since President Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s to have had a child who served in an active conflict. Biden paid tribute to a number of veterans alive and dead during his speech at the Memorial Amphitheater, which took place after he and First Lady Jill Biden attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which turned 100 years old on Thursday.
'I said, "What in the heck have you done,"' the president recalled. 'Each of our veterans is a link in a chain of patriots that has stood in defense of our country,' Biden said, remarking how his own son, Beau, had called him to tell him he would be serving in Iraq.
President Joe Biden paid tribute to his son Beau, the 'great negro' baseball player Satchel Paige, the troops killed in Afghanistan and Colin Powell during his Veterans Day address at Arlington National Cemetery.
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