President Barack Obama on Saturday addressed a full Catholic Mass honoring Beau Biden in Wilmington, Delaware as hundreds fill the church as Vice President lays his son to rest.
Vice-president Joe Biden’s two surviving children – Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden – also spoke to remember their brother, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer last week at the age of 46.
After delivering the eulogy, Obama embraced Joe Biden warmly at the front of the church, and kissed him on the cheek.
Beau Biden “did not have a mean bone in his body” and was the consummate public servant and family man, Obama said.
With tears in his eyes and an occasional slight tremor in his voice, Obama said Biden had “shoulders broad enough not only to bear your own burdens but the burdens of others”.
Obama attended the funeral with his wife, Michelle, their daughters, Malia and Sasha, and his mother-in-law, Mary Robinson. The president said the Biden family “rule” was that, before help was even sought, family members would be there for each other. Addressing Beau’s widow, Hallie, and their young children Natalie and Hunter, he promised that the Obamas would now be there for them.
Credit:People
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