Go Skins Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 The Associated Press @AP 3m3 minutes ago BREAKING: Vice President Biden announces death of son, Beau, from brain cancer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/05/30/e1ac5a2a-0731-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?tid=sm_tw Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III, the son of Vice President Biden and former state attorney general of Delaware, died Saturday after battling brain cancer for several years. Biden, 46, the oldest son of the vice president and the rising star of a family dynasty, had been admitted recently to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington as he fought the cancer, a battle that his father largely kept private in the last weeks as his son clung to his life. “The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us—especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter,” Vice President Biden said in a statement that was released Saturday night. Beau Biden, a major in the Delaware Army National Guard’s Judge Advocate General Corps, became one of his state’s most popular public figures and had been considered the frontrunner for the 2016 race to become the state’s next governor, but in August 2013 he checked into one of the world’s most renowned cancer treatment centers, Texas Medical Center, in Houston to begin his fight with the disease. Biden is survived by his wife and two children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Numbers| Posted May 31, 2015 Report Share Posted May 31, 2015 Mully, I just verified this as happening within the last day. It really hurts when a parent has to watch their child die. Prayers of comfort to the family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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