|Greenville & Hockessin Photo Essay|
The extraordinary resilience of Joe Biden Text by Richard L. Gaw “My dad always said, ‘Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.’” Joseph R, Biden, 46th President of the United States Over the past 60 years, the stories of Joseph Robinette Biden have become ours, burned into the folklore of Delaware like trusted fables placed on a bookshelf. We have nearly memorized them all down to the word because they have been uttered so frequently by their author: the places, the experiences, the people, the neighbors, and always – always – the dusting off of life’s most horrible tragedies from a tailored blue suit and a will to carry on that seems to have gathered its strength from the gods. Continued on Page 46
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