All right, Joe Biden giving a prime time address here.

His first one, let's listen.

Now, total deaths in America, 527,726.

This more deaths than in World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and 9-11 combined.

There were husbands, wives, sons and daughters, grandparents, friends, neighbors, young and

old.

They leave behind loved ones, unable to truly grieve or to heal even to have a funeral.

But I'm also thinking about everyone else who lost this past year.

Tinnatial causes, by cruel fate of accident or other disease, they too died alone.

They too leave behind loved ones who are hurting badly.

You know, you've often heard me say before I talk about the longest walk any parent can

make is up a short flight of stairs to his child's bedroom to say, I'm sorry, I lost my job.

Can't be here anymore.

Like my dad told me when he lost his job in Scranton, so many of you had to make that same

walk this past year.

You lost your job.

You closed your business facing a victim, homelessness, hunger.

A loss of control, maybe worst of all, a loss of hope.

Watching a generation of children who may be set back up to a year or more because they've

not been in school because of their loss of learning is the details of life that matter

most.

And we miss those details, the big details in the small moments, weddings, birthdays,

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