Biden defends his story of a heartbreaking war story after reporting erroneous facts

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday defended the "central point" of a war story that he had told during the election campaign last week as being "absolutely accurate" after that. A report revealed a multitude of incorrect details.

According to the Washington Post, Biden reportedly "mixed at least three real events into a story of bravery, compassion, and regret that never happened" during a campaign stoppage in Hanover, New Hampshire last Friday. . He spoke to the crowd of the captain of the navy in Afghanistan who had sunk in a ravine under fire to save a member of the military service who had been shot. He then tried to refuse a medal to the Vice President because he was dead.

The Washington Post report – based on interviews with more than a dozen Biden soldiers, commanders, and campaigners – traced the details of Biden's story to three different stories of bravery. While Biden had awarded a medal to a brave soldier, it was not the medal he had said, the soldier did not do what Biden had told and the incident did not take place instead from Biden.

"I do not understand what they're talking about, but the bottom line is that what I've said is absolutely accurate," Biden said of the Post's report in an interview with Caroline's diary. South, Post & Courier.

"I made it clear how brave, unbelievable, this generation of warriors, those fallen angels we lost," he told Jonathan Capehart, a Post reporter. "I do not know what's the problem, what did I say wrong?"

Biden, who was campaigning Thursday in the state of Palmetto, told the newspaper that he was telling two war stories from Afghanistan, but he denied confusing the details.

President Barack Obama awarded the medal of honor to the soldier who rescued him. Biden did not give him a medal. Another story involved a soldier who braved the Taliban to save a wounded soldier. A general awarded him a bronze star under the watch of Biden, a Delaware senator. The third story, according to the Post, involved a soldier who had hit a burning vehicle in order to save a friend in flames. He tried to refuse, but the vice president finally awarded him a bronze star. Over the years, the Post reported, Biden mixed the details of these three stories, and his story became more heartbreaking and less accurate.

The Washington Post reports that the soldier who initially did not want the Vice President's Bronze Star – Staff Sergeant Chad Workman – recalled the ceremony as a moving experience. "He has that look where his eyes can see in your eyes," said the staff sergeant at the Washington Post. "I felt that he really understood."

"I think it's ridiculous," Biden told Post & Courier. "The essence – the fact that everything I said about it – was not the essence of the story." The story was that "the gasoline – the fact that everything I said about it – was not the essence of the story." he had refused the medal because the guy he had tried to save and was likely to save his life.It is the beginning, the middle and the others can take it and do whatever you want . "

Amanda Golden and Garrett Haake contributed.