Joe Biden tells FALSE war story during campaign event about giving a reluctant hero Navy captain a Silver Star in Afghanistan and gives 'my word as a Biden' it's 'God's truth' - but gets nearly every detail wrong

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Joe Biden tells FALSE war story during campaign event about giving a reluctant hero Navy captain a Silver Star in Afghanistan and gives 'my word as a Biden' it's 'God's truth' - but gets nearly every detail wrong

    Biden told a campaign audience what turned out to be an invented story about awarding a medal to a U.S. serviceman in Afghanistan
    Said in New Hampshire that he went to Kunar province to give a silver star to a Navy captain who rappelled down a cliff to retrieve a fallen comrade
    Claimed the trip happened while he was vice president, and the naval officer said he didn't want the medal because his compatriot had died
    Biden visited that in Afghanistan before he was vice-president and was there to warth a lesser award be given to an enlisted Army sergeant who did not rappel
    He also went to a different province in 2011 where he did give a medal - but not a silver star - to a reluctant hero who was not a Navy officer but an enlisted soldier
    The soldier had raced into a burning car to try to save his platoon-mate, and said he didn't want the bronze star because he was too late and he died
    Finally he was present when another enlisted soldier who cliff-rappelled was honored - but it was the Medal of Honor from President Obama in 2014
    Challenged on it Biden told Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart: 'I don't know what the problem is? What is it that i said wrong?'
    Biden's invention of a story from parts of real anecdotes comes as campaign-watchers are concerned about his mental abilities at age 76

[Perhaps he just mis-remembered]

[Dear God, May the most #antiwar candidate win. Amen.]