by Steve Byas, The New American:
President Joe Biden has continued his notorious practice of outrageous fabrications and using the misfortunes of his own family — even falsely telling the mother of a slain serviceman that his son, Beau, had also come home in a “flag-draped coffin.” The truth is that Beau Biden died six years after returning from Iraq, of cancer. On Monday, families of the 13 servicemembers who were killed during the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan criticized Biden’s falsehoods.
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One of the “Gold Star Moms” — women who have lost a child in the military service of the United States — Cheryl Cox was particularly outraged at what she described as Biden’s “heartless” likening of her son’s death in a combat situation to his own son’s death from cancer, unrelated to combat. Cox’s son, Marine Lance Corporal Dylan Merola, died in combat on August 26, 2021 when the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul was attacked in an ISIS suicide bombing.
Cox, speaking at a forum of Gold Star families in Escondido, California, organized by Representative Darrell Issa, a Republican who represents the area in Congress, recounted what the president had said to her: “My wife, Jill, and I know how you feel. We lost our son as well and brought him home in a flag-draped coffin.”
The truth is that Beau did not return from Iraq in a “flag-draped coffin,” but instead died at the age of 46 of brain cancer — six years after returning from Iraq. While there is no reason to question that Beau Biden honorably served his country in Iraq, he was not killed in action there, and he did return to America in a flag-draped coffin.
Cox’s son, on the other hand, was attempting to evacuate thousands of Afghan allies, as well as several hundred Americans from the country, as the U.S.-supported Afghan government was imploding while the Taliban rebels were on the offensive to recapture control of the country.
Cox recalled her reaction to Biden’s claim to her that Beau had died in action like her son. “My heart started beating faster and I started shaking, knowing that their son died from cancer and they were able to be by his side.” Cox added, “After this encounter, I have never had any personal correspondence, nor has my son been honored or his name spoken by this commander-in-chief or his administration on what I feel is because of their failures and poor planning to exit our troops from Afghanistan.”
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