President Joe Biden spoke with empathy and emotion at a memorial service for slain Capitol Police Officer William “Billy” Evans’ memorial service, telling the family that their departed loved one is “still with you.” Officer Evans was memorialized in the Capitol Tuesday, where the president followed Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi with a ten-minute […]
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“We hope it s a comfort to you that so many now know about your dad and know that he is a hero. That his name will always be on our lips and his memory in our hearts,” Pelosi said.
“A greater compliment does no one have than the president of the United States looking after your toys,” Pelosi added with a laugh as she watched Biden return the toy.
Biden spent most of his tribute addressing Evans s family directly and recounted his own experience with grief, having lost his first wife and one child in a car accident and later his son Beau Biden from brain cancer.
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