Beau And Jill Biden: Portraits Of Heroes

  

     Beau Biden was a hero. After losing his sister and mother in a car crash that he sustained severe injuries from at age 3, he decided to live the best life possible. He worked as a federal prosecutor from 1995 and 2004 and served in the Delaware National Guard. He was deployed to active service in 2008 and went by his mother's maiden name, "Hunter," to avoid any special treatment. He won a bronze star medal, which he refused to wear. From 2007 to 2015, he served as the Attorney General of Delaware, a position in which he toughened restrictions against sex offenders and prosecuted Earl Bradley, a notorious serial child rapist whose prosecution he placed above his run for the Senate. After he was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, he still chose to run for governor, and he made his father promise to not let his death in 2015 be the end of his career. It was not-- Joe served as VP until 2017, secured $2.2 billion in cancer research funding in both the public and private sectors, wrote a book, and was elected the 46th president of the United States in 2020, a position he will hold until either 2025 or 2029.

     Jill Biden is also a hero. A doctorate holder, she taught English for 13 years before teaching adolescents with emotional disabilities in a psychiatric hospital and teaching at Delaware Technical And Community College for 15 years. She has taught at Northern Virginia Community College since 2009, making her the first second lady and, soon, the first first lady to keep her paying job while her husband was in office, a major barrier in equality for women. She is also a philanthropist.