I hope you will take the time to watch this video. Vice President Joe Biden is truly an amazing man. I shed many tears watching this video.
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You’ll learn what it means to be an American — there is no quit in America. Being there for your family and your friends, serving your country, building real relationships – even with people with whom you vehemently disagree – that’s America, made up of ordinary people, like you, capable of doing extraordinary things
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And one day when you graduate from law school, you’ll decide to become a public defender. In the midst of the epic struggle for civil rights, you’ll be walking the streets on the east side of Wilmington, much of which has been burned to the ground, after your heroes were assassinated.
Forty years later, you’ll stand on a train platform of Wilmington overlooking the east side. Wilmington and the nation will no longer be in flames, but awaiting a new ripple of hope.
You’ll be waiting for a young black man — inspired by the dream of a king — coming from Philadelphia to pick you up, take you on a 124-mile trip to Washington to be sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States of America.