Joe Biden napped on plane while families waited hours for soldiers' bodies: Report
India TodaySeveral family members of US Marines killed in Afghanistan had to wait for more than three hours as President Joe Biden napped aboard his Air Force One aircraft before a formal event by the US military to receive the bodies of service members in 2021, reports claimed. The president and First Lady Jill Biden were scheduled to welcome the caskets of the killed soldiers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware at the 'dignified transfer ceremony'. made us wait an extra three hours to receive the bodies of our dead family members because he couldn't pull it together,' Roice McCollum, a sister of a killed soldier, told the British newspaper DailyMail. As President Biden said on the 4th anniversary of the tragic attack on Abbey Gate and in the letters he wrote to family members after meeting with them in Dover, ‘these 13 Americans--and the many more that were wounded--were patriots in the highest sense’ and ‘we owe them and their families a sacred debt we will never be able to fully repay, but will never cease working to fulfil," a White House spokesperson told Daily Mail.
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