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Hunter named his first daughter Naomi, after his younger sister. Hunter has also opened up about the car accident, telling CBS News in a 2021 interview that his years of harrowing substance abuse were, he felt, a direct result of the trauma. In 2015, Biden lost another family member - his son, former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer at age 46 and is buried near Neilia and Naomi. RELATED: Joe Biden Visits Graves of First Wife and Their Baby Daughter on Anniversary of Deadly Christmas Car CrashĪccording to a pool report, Hunter was on hand at the Sunday service, along with some of the president's grandchildren, who could be seen carrying a large wreath with white flowers and placing it at the graves.
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Not because they were deranged, not because they were nuts, because they had been to the top of the mountain, and they just knew in their heart they would never get there again." He continued: "For the first time in my life, I understood how someone could consciously decide to commit suicide. Capitol building, "I remember looking up and saying, 'God,' as if I was talking to God myself, 'You can't be good, how can you be good?' " "You just felt it in your bones: Something bad happened."Īs he left the U.S. "By the tone of the phone call, you just knew," he said in 2012, addressing the families of fallen U.S. The first lady carried a bouquet of flowers. Biden and his wife, Jill, prayed for Beau Biden on Tuesday during a special Mass at a Roman Catholic church near the presidents home in Wilmington, Delaware. Capitol building, preparing his staff, when he received a phone call telling that his family members had been in a car accident on their way to buy a Christmas tree. President Joe Biden is marking one of the saddest days of his life, the death of his son Beau. Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of the car crash that killed Biden's first wife Neilia Hunter Biden and 13-month-old daughter Naomi Bidenīiden has previously opened up about the events of that day, saying in a 2012 speech that he was at the U.S. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del., after attending Mass on. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden followed by granddaughters Maisy Biden, carrying a wreath, Finnegan Biden and Natalie Biden, right, leave St.