Joe Biden's wonderful speech to Yale on Class Day 2015

[CTyankee]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/05/31/vice-president-bidens-very-personal-speech-to-yale-graduates/?tid=pm_local_pop_b

What a sad thing...

[malaise]

1. Indeed

Still he was and is a great father

[CTyankee]

2. I'm thinking now that those sunglasses were on to hide his tears and red eyes...

he must have known what was to come...

[malaise]

4. From the tumor returned the writing was on the wall

When I read it here that he was back in hospital I knew the end was coming.
He was really too young to die.

[CTyankee]

6. Yes, this thing with cancer is that when it returns from remission it comes like

a devil out of hell. I've seen it happen with friends. It is terrible. I just didn't think it was so awful for Beau. I was terribly wrong...

[Cha]

3. Thank you, CTyankee

[CTyankee]

5. Oh, my god. He honored that commitment to speak at Yale...how awful...

the poor guy. He must have been in terrible emotional pain...

[malaise]

7. Few would have honored that commitment

Given the situation with Beau

[CTyankee]

8. Who knows? He might have told Yale about the situation but not wanted Beau's

condition to be made public. So he went with it, delivered a moving speech and contributed to the young Yale graduates a valuable lesson in humility...now they know what they didn't know at the time. Joe Biden is a hero for doing that...those young Yalies thinking the world is their oyster, now know it can vanish in no time at all...worth thinking about...

[malaise]

9. I'm betting very few people knew

I did notice that he was out of the spotlight for a while. Death of a child is painful but I'm betting Joe has fewer regrets than most - he was there for those boys.

[workinclasszero]

10. I feel so bad for Joe

All the terrible tragedy he has seen in his life would break many people.

I wish we could all just surround him and hug him. Its not fair a good man has to bury two of his children.

Not fair at all.

[CTyankee]

11. It serves to put things into perspective in our own lives...