High Point University’s 13th Annual Veterans Day Celebration: 8 a.m. today, Nido and Mariana Qubein Arena and Conference Center. Featured speakers include HPU President Nido Qubein and former U.S. Army
we can lose a vice president. we can t lose many more of these kids. this guy climbed down a ravine, carried this guy up on his back under fire, and the general wanted knee pin the silver star on him. i got up there and god s truth my word as a biden he stood at attention. i went to pin him. he said, do not pin it on me, please, sir. do not do that. he died. he died. but as the washington post was first to point out 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. biden visited konar province in 2008 as a u.s. senator not as vice president. the service member who performed the celebrated rescue biden described was a 20-year-old army specialist not a much older navy captain and that soldier kyle j. white never had a silver star or any other medal pinned on him by
and that soldier kyle j. white never had a silver star or any other medal pinned on him by biden. after that article was published, biden then spoke with washington post opinion columnist jonathan capehart and he suggested he was telling the story of chad workman who received a medal from the vice president in 2011 and didn t believe he deserved it although none of the details he offered almost none of the details he offered matched what happened to workman. i was making the point how courageous these people are. how incredible they are. this generation of warriors. these fallen angels we have lost. and so that i don t know what the problem is. i mean what is it that i said wrong? biden also defended himself in an interview with the post and courier, and he said it was accurate, and biden did acknowledge there are two different stories that he likes