Lest We Forget the Heartbreak

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AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool



AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool



https://twitter.com/thegarance/status/606558054813822977



https://twitter.com/YahooNews/status/606605358426161153

[LostOne4Ever]

1. ...

[NanceGreggs]

2. I cannot imagine the grief ...

... of burying one's own child.

We anticipate the loss of our grandparents, our parents, our elders, even our spouses. But seeing a child leave this life before us can never be prepared for, nor fully accepted.

[awoke_in_2003]

17. To do it twice in your life

must be unbearable

[herding cats]

3. I coudn't do it.

Not in the public eye like they're having to. It's the single most horrific thing a parent can ever have to endure, and they're having to share it with the entire world. I'm just not that strong of a person.

[BrotherIvan]

12. Well said

It's just too much and I hope they have time to be with each other and heal. Just so so sad.

[JDPriestly]

4. It is so very sad and unfair. My sympathy to the Biden family, all of them.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Sorry, Joe.

So very sorry for your loss.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Those last pics of Biden...

[CTyankee]

21. My brother lost his daughter due to gun violence when she was only 24...

he collapsed at her funeral. He was never the same. I truly believe it eventually killed him...

[Behind the Aegis]

26. My uncle was killed a week after I was born...

...my grandmother never recovered. It destroyed her. We are all grown men, I am 46, just like Beau, and if I were to pass (KOW), it would likely kill my mother.

[No Vested Interest]

7. What a wonderful example of familial love Joe Biden gives to the world.

That big Irish heart of his is breaking, but there he stands comforting those near and dear to him.

[LibDemAlways]

8. What an impossibly sad scene. No parent should

have to attend the funeral of his child and no small child should have to attend the funeral of a parent. The Biden family has been through so much already. So difficult to look at those photos of such deep grief.

My husband's mother died when he was 12 and to this day (he's 64), he cannot bring himself to talk about losing her. The pain has never gone away.

Thoughts and prayers for the Biden family. There are truly no words.

[Egnever]

9. A parent should not have to outlive their child

I can't begin to imagine.

My heart goes out to the Biden family.

[DiverDave]

15. This^^^ Times 1000

I cannot begin to imagine the pain if one of mine died.
It's been my nightmare since they were born.

It would shatter me...

[lovemydog]

10. My heart goes out to the Biden family.

Thank you all so much for all you contributed to our country & the world.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Condolences to the Biden family

[JustAnotherGen]

13. My heart breaks for him

Its out of the order. He has now buried two children.

[DEMTough]

14. My Condolences to the Biden family.

[brer cat]

16. so very sad.

Sending my prayers to the Bidens.

[sabrina 1]

18. That is heart breaking. No pain worse than losing a child.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I'm sorry, but I hate that their pain has been made public like this.

My heart is breaking for this family... but they do deserve to grieve in peace. I can't imagine what that would have done to me.

[bigtree]

20. I'll say this (the reason I finally decided to post this)

...it's far too easy (and likely) that this pain and grief will be brushed aside and republicans and others will feel free to launch full-throttle attacks on the Vice-President in other forums, such as Cruz did the other day. That's why I wrote, 'Lest We Forget' in the title. Sensitivity and understanding is important at this time, given the very public role VP Biden still has to perform, and people should be aware of that.

[CTyankee]

22. Obama is giving a eulogy I think tomorrow...

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I get you, it's just not something I can be a part of, personally.

Because it is their pain, and it hurts to much to see someone suffer. I can't use it for political gain in any sense. This was not an attack on you, a candidate or a political figure. These were simply my own thoughts.

[Rex]

23. .

[Hiraeth]

24. My condolences to the Biden family in this, their hour of grief.