I say this as a father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the conspicuous service medal, and lost his life in Iraq.

Biden's son Beau Biden was deployed in Iraq from October 2008 to September 2009, nearly a year, and returned from the war with Stage four glioblastoma, which Biden attributes to his exposure to burn pits. Beau Biden died of this disease four years later, in a Bethesda hospital.