‘It has been the greatest honor of my life to lead you, to serve you, care for you, to defend you just as you defended us,’ the president said.
President Joe Biden gave his final Veterans Day address at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 11.
Joined by first lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and second gentleman Doug Emhoff, he praised the men and women who served and their families for their sacrifice and called upon them to keep fighting for American ideals.
“We’re the only nation—the only in the world—built on an idea, and that idea is we’re all created equal,” he said in his speech.
“We haven’t lived up to it every time, but we’ve never walked away from it, even when it’s hard, especially when it’s hard. And today, standing together to honor those Americans who have dared all, risked all, and given all to our nation, I must say clearly, we never will give up.”
The president made his remarks after participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with Harris, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough, and Maj. Gen. Trevor Bredenkamp, commanding general of the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region and the…
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