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A man alone knelt by Beau Biden’s grave while President Biden delivered his inaugural address.
A Delaware News Journal reporter captured a powerful and private moment on Wednesday when Joe Biden made his first speech as president of the United States. “A moving moment,” captioned reporter Patricia Talorico, the photo, which quickly went viral. “While Joe Biden was giving his inaugural address, a lonely man in a uniform knelt at his son Beau’s Delaware grave.”> Poignant moment: While Joe Biden was giving his inaugural address, a lonely man in a uniform knelt at the Delaware’s grave of his son Beau. pic.twitter.com/QkCuJRHzTz >> – Patricia Talorico (@PattyTalorico) January 20, 2021 As Talorico explained in a subsequent article, “Delaware is a tiny state.” She described how, in 2002, when she was struggling with a task from her editor, Beau Biden approached her to ask if she was okay while she was sitting alone on a bench at a primary school in Wilmington. “He was not in office at the time,” she wrote. “He was just being nice. It wasn’t a big gesture, just a small one, but it somehow made a difference that day. I never forgot that act of kindness.” On Wednesday, Beau – who died of a brain tumor in 2015, aged 46 – was in Talorico’s mind, and she decided to drive to her grave to say “a short prayer” when she saw “a lonely man in a uniform blue kneeling beside Beau’s grave. No one else was around … In my car, I had the radio tuned to CNN. Joe Biden was being sworn in as president and was about to start his speech. “As Talorico writes:” The journalist in me wanted to go back and find out [the man’s] identity and ask why he was there. The person who once received a kind gesture from Beau when I needed it most, knew it was a time to be respectful, and I left. “Read her full story in the Delaware News Journal. More stories from theweek.com 7 brutally funny cartoons about Trump’s exit from the White House, Biden removes Trump’s Diet Coke button from the Oval Office. Biden’s team allegedly noticed after the inauguration that Trump really had no vaccine distribution plan