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Biden claims son Beau ‘lost his life in Iraq’ as he declares Colorado’s Camp Hale a national monument in motion that will prevent oil and gas drilling
- “I say this as the father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the distinguished service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” Biden said.
- Beau, former Delaware Attorney General and former military reservist, died of brain cancer in 2015
- The younger Biden had been deployed to Iraq in 2009 and earned a Bronze Star medal for his service there
- Designating Camp Hale a national monument was ostensibly for its historic connection to World War II, but also prevented oil and gas drilling on 436 square miles
- Biden also said he is blocking new mining claims and mineral leases on the 225,000 acres in Thompson Divide for at least two years and up to two decades.
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President Biden claimed his late son Beau “lost his life in Iraq,” seemingly convinced the former military reservist died of brain cancer after being exposed to fire pits.
Speaking near Vail, Colorado, Biden declared Camp Hale’s continental divide a national monument.
“I say this as the father of a man and won the Bronze Star, the distinguished service medal, and lost his life in Iraq,” Biden said.
“Imagine the courage, the audacity and the genuine sacrifice—real sacrifice they all made,” he said, recounting how Camp Hale played in training the famed 10th Mountain Division in World War II.
President Biden claimed his late son Beau “lost his life in Iraq,” seemingly convinced the former military reservist died as a result of the brain cancer he developed after being exposed to fire pits
Beau, the former Attorney General of Delaware, died of brain cancer in 2015.
The younger Biden had been deployed to Iraq in 2009 and earned a Bronze Star medal for his service there
Beau, the former Attorney General of Delaware, died of brain cancer in 2015. The younger Biden had been deployed to Iraq in 2009 and earned a Bronze Star medal for his service there.
President Biden said in 2019 that he believed his son had developed cancer from “exposure to burning pits” during his deployment. “In my opinion I can’t prove it yet, he came back with stage four glioblastoma. He lived eighteen months, knowing he would die.’
Designating Camp Hale as a national monument was ostensibly for its historic connection to World War II, but it also prevented oil and gas drilling across 436 square miles in Colorado.
Biden has halted new oil and gas leases in federal waters.
The move sidesteps Congressional passivity over the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Economy Act, which Democratic Senator Michael Bennett urged, at a time when he’s locked in an interim race against Republican Joe O’Dea.
Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, whose Colorado district borders the gorge, called the proclamation of the approximately 54,000-acre Camp Hale segregation a “federal land grab.”
Biden also said he is blocking new mining claims and mineral leases on the 225,000 acres in the Thompson Divide area for at least two years and up to two decades.