A president whose life has been marked by family tragedy speaks in deeply personal terms as he tries to comfort the huge number of Americans whose lives have been forever changed.
US president holds moment of silence, flags lowered to half staff as pandemic death toll breaches half a million mark; 'Just like that, so many took their last breath alone'
WASHINGTON (AP)
With sunset remarks and a national moment of silence, President Joe Biden on Monday confronted head-on the country’s once-unimaginable loss half a million Americans in the COVID-19 pandemic as he tried to strike a balance between mourning and hope.
Addressing the “grim, heartbreaking milestone” directly and publicly, Biden stepped to a lectern in the White House Cross Hall, unhooked his face mask and delivered an emotion-filled eulogy for more than 500,000 Americans he said he felt he knew.
“We often hear people described as ordinary Americans. There’s no such thing,” he said Monday evening. “There’s nothing ordinary about them. The people we lost were extraordinary.”
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