US President Barack Obama embrace Vice President Joe Biden Biden funeral son, Beau, at the Church of St. Anthony of Padua, Wilimington, Delaware, USA (6/6). (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
About 1.000 people attended the ceremony to pay their respects to the son of Vice President Joe Biden that.
US President Barack Obama, accompanied by members of his family, gave the eulogy at the ceremony honoring Beau Biden, the eldest son of Vice President Joe Biden, in the Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Wilmington, Delaware.
Beau is a former Attorney General of the State of Delaware, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46 years.
About 1.000 people filled the church, Saturday (6/6), to pay their last respects. Among them include former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and General Ray Odierno, the former top US commander Iraq, where Beau Biden served for one year.
Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden also present to commemorate their elder brother.
The ceremony is the culmination of three days of public mourning period for Beau Biden, whose body was laid in a coffin which was placed in the state of Delaware Senate on Thursday, before the event to the general public in the church of St. Anthony on Friday. On the second day, residents wait in long queues to pay tribute to Beau.
Beau battling brain cancer for several years and has been undergoing treatment in hospital Walter Reed Army in the suburbs of Washington.
Not the first time Joe Biden had to bury his son. First wife and daughter Joe was killed in a car accident more than four decades ago.
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