A man of character': Obama delivers emotional eulogy for Beau Biden

President Obama fought back tears Saturday as he remembered the son of Vice President Joe Biden as the “consummate public servant” who learned through early tragedy what mattered most and resolved to “live a life of meaning.”

Obama choked with emotion during his moving eulogy to Beau Biden which he concluded by saying, “God bless his memory and all he touched.”
“He was a scion of an incredible family who brushed away the possibility of privilege for the harder, better reward of earning his own way,” Obama told a packed St. Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware.

The president reflected on the “cruel twist of fate” that killed Beau Biden’s mother and infant sister in a car crash four decades ago. The 3-year-old Beau and his younger brother Hunter were injured in the accident.
Out of that tragedy, Obama said, Beau early on “made a grown-up decision” to live a life of meaning that would benefit others.
The crowd of more than 1,000 mourners included first lady Michelle Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton and other dignitaries.