On Aug 24, 2:08 pm, "Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS"
> wrote:
> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli.../23/2008-08-23
> _joe_biden_beats_odds_after_wife_daughter.html
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> Joe Biden beats odds after wife, daughter killed
>
> BY LARRY McSHANE
> DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
>
> Sunday, August 24th 2008, 1:26 AM
>
> Joe Biden never works on Dec.18.
>
> It was one week before Christmas 1972, and the senator-elect from
> Delaware awaited his first term. There was plenty to celebrate as his
> wife and three kids left home to find a Christmas tree.
>
> Biden was already in Washington. It was his sister Val who took the phone
> call, her face drained of color when she hung up and told him of "a
> slight accident."
>
> Biden thought immediately of his wife, Neilia. "She's dead, isn't she?"
> the politician asked.
>
> She was.
>
> As the Bidens were driving home in the family station wagon, their tree
> picked out, they were broad sided by a tractor-trailer. Neilia was
> killed, along with 13-month-old daughter, Naomi.
>
> Sons Beau and Hunter, toddlers themselves, were critically injured. With
> their father's constant care and attention, both recovered.
>
> (snip)
>
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And NOW one of those sons is in Iraq serving in the military when he
could have be a fighter pilot in Mississippi like George Walker Bush,
who no one remembers anything about him being in the military. It was
hell flying missions and being bombed in every bar up and down the
coast.