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Joe Biden has been criticized for saying his vanquished son Beau “lost his life in Iraq,” a reference to the president’s longstanding confidence that poisonous fires led to young Biden dying of brain cancer at age 46.
The president speaking near Vail, Colorado, on Wednesday when he designated Camp Hail as a national monument.
The area, covering 436 square miles, was the educational site of the 10th Mountain Division of World War II.
Biden spoke of the bravery of division as they fought in Italy, before noting that he had lost his son in Iraq.
“Imagine, I mean it, I say this as the father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Outstanding Service Medal, and lost his in Iraq. Imagine the courage, the audacity and the true sacrifice that everyone made,” the president said. .
A clip of the moment shared via the conservative Washington Examiner on Twitter has been viewed more than a million times.
Beau Biden served in Iraq from 2008 to 2009 as a member of the Delaware Army’s National Guard. He served as Delaware’s Attorney General from 2007 to 2015.
Just months after leaving office, he died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, on May 30, 2015.
After his death, he received the Delaware Distinguished Service Cross for “heroism, meritorious service, and remarkable achievement. “
“Beau Biden died of brain cancer in 2015, more than five years after returning from a year of service in Iraq. Joe Biden attributed the cancer to Beau Biden’s proximity to the fires in Iraq, though he admitted he wasn’t sure,” CNN said. -tweeted fact-checker Daniel Dale.
In 2016, then-Vice President Biden said his son’s cancer could have been caused by the poisonous fires he had been exposed to while serving in the Middle East.
The New York Times reported that Biden said he was “stunned” when he read a bankruptcy about his son’s death in Joseph Hickman’s e-book The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers.
“Guys, I’m going to be the biggest neck pain as long as I live, until we know about those burning lights,” he said in a convention hall in the congressional complex.
Combustion wells have been used to dispose of waste, such as plastics, rubber and batteries, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Smoke from wells can be toxic, Newsweek noted.
The Defense Ministry said nearly 3. 5 million army workers may have been exposed to toxins to destructive degrees as a result of the practice.
“I believe we have a sacred legal responsibility to equip those we send to war and take care of them and their families when they return home,” he said. Biden during his State of the Union address earlier this year. “And they come home, many of the fittest and best-trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a coffin covered with a flag.
While Biden said he couldn’t be completely sure his son’s cancer was caused by the combustion bulbs, he said his management would “find out as much as I could. “
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) states that it “understands that many veterans are involved in exposure to smoke and gases generated through open fires. “
“In Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the Southwest Asian military’s theater of operations, open burning of garbage and other slash-and-burn is a not unusual practice. The Ministry of Defense has now closed the maximum of the fires and plans to close the rest,” the firm added.
“Researchers, in addition to VA experts, are actively reading airborne hazards such as fires and other Army environmental exposures. Ongoing studies will allow us to better perceive potential long-term effects on fitness and provide you with increased care and services,” the site says.