Biden spends Father's Day golfing with grandson, first lady honors president as "anchor" of family
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President Joe Biden spent Father's Day golfing with his grandson, Robert "Hunter" Biden II, at Fieldstone Golf Club in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House said Sunday. Mr. Biden's 15-year-old grandson is the son of his late son, Beau Biden.
Steve Ricchetti, a counselor to the president, joined them. Meanwhile, first lady Jill Biden posted a tribute her father on social media. "My dad, a Navy Signalman in World War II, was my first hero," Jill Biden wrote. "If I close my eyes, I can still hear his encouraging voice saying, 'Good for you, Jilly-bean!'"Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.
The knock at the door came at nighttime on Mother's Day 2008 in Oregon, where Jessica Ellis' parents lived. It was around 9:20 p.m. and his wife, Linda, was already in bed; her father Steve Ellis told CBS News, that he thought someone let their animals out — but two soldiers in Class A uniforms were standing at the door.