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On Thursday, Delaware residents gathered at the state Capitol to pay their respects to former Attorney General Beau Biden, who lay in honor in the state Senate chamber following a procession from Wilmington to Dover. Behind his flag-draped casket was a Senate dais draped with black bunting and decorated with white flowers. The casket was flanked by a black-and-white photo of Biden with his wife and children and a Conspicuous Service Cross, presented to him posthumously Thursday for his service in the Delaware National Guard.
The doors were then opened to members of the public gathered at Legislative Hall, the Capitol.
“Beau made Delaware a better place for us all,” said Markell, describing Biden as a dedicated public servant and a model husband and father.
Col. Ed Brandt, a Delaware National Guard chaplain, said Biden’s life was marked by many accomplishments between “bookends of tragedy.”
Biden was 3 years old when he and his younger brother, also named Hunter, were injured in a 1972 car crash that killed their mother and infant sister. The crash occurred just weeks after Joe Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate. Beau Biden’s life and political career were cut short by cancer, which first appeared in the form of a lesion discovered by doctors in 2013, three years after he had suffered a minor stroke.
May his soul rest in peace and may God comfort the family he left behind!
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Source: Huffington Post
