Speaking with veterans at a town hall, Biden told a story of when he was in Iraq as Vice President and he was asked to pin a Silver Star on a service member for rescuing a comrade that had fallen 150 feet.
President Joe Biden repeated a false war story on Friday during a visit with veterans in Delaware.
“This young man climbed down the hill, put a guy on his shoulder, and brought him back up and was shot at on the way up,” Biden explained. “And he got there and I went to present it to him, too.” The president continued by recounting the story of the soldier telling him that he did not want the medal because his friend had died.The event took place in Afghanistan, not Iraq. The medal Biden presented was a Bronze star, not a Silver Star. The award for the soldier was for the heroic act of going into a burning vehicle to save one of his friends, not for repelling into a ravine carrying his comrade 150 feet up a hill under gunfire.
This is not the first time that Biden has been called out for getting the story about a soldier he met horribly wrong.Washington Post, Biden appeared to be jumbling three different stories into one, making his more dramatic. “In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch, and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony,” the
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