President Joe Biden reached out to the family members of a fallen soldier, telling them during a phone call that he could relate to their loss because his son had spent a year in Iraq and had “died because of it.”
Biden spoke with Oneida and Shawn Sanders, the parents of SPC Kennedy Sanders, and told them during the call that their daughter would be posthumously awarded the rank of Sergeant. A short time later, however, he pivoted to talk about his own son’s death.
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Joe Biden tells the parents of one of the soldiers who died in Syria over the weekend that he lost his son Beau in Iraq.
His son died of brain cancer five years after returning from Iraq.
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SPC Sanders was killed — alongside two other American service members — in Syria in the drone strike executed by Iran-backed terrorists over the…
