re: Biden yet again brings up Beau at a National Officers’ Memorial Service

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Downvote me all you want but to make fun of a man or woman who lost their child is just about as low as you can get, just plain unforgiveable.

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nobody is down-voting you because of your loss.

I'll bet that you don't go around intruding into others' time of mourning by making us some story about how great YOUR son was and that YOU TOO are able to understand their grief.

There are many ways to express condolences in honorable ways - and not one of them involves trying to compete for sympathy with the newly grieving family by lying about the heroic deed YOUR son did (in your imagination)

I am old enough to have attended far too many wakes and funerals

- the last thing in the world you should do is announce - "HEY - you think this is tough - you ought to see what *I* had to endure when MY (insert gender/age of host's deceased) died.