President Joe Biden said his late son Beau Biden “lost his life in Iraq” during a speech in Colorado, where he designated Camp Hale as a national monument.
“I say this as a father of a man who won the Bronze Star, the Conspicuous Service Medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” Biden said on Oct. 12.
Yet the young Biden died of brain cancer at age 46.
Beau, a two-term attorney general of Delaware and a decorated war veteran, had undergone weeks of treatment at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he passed away in May 2015.
“It is with broken hearts that Hallie, Hunter, Ashley, Jill and I announce the passing of our husband, brother and son, Beau, after he battled brain cancer with the same integrity, courage and strength he demonstrated every day of his life,” according to a 2015 statement from Biden’s office, who was vice president at the time….