On February 2, local time, Joe Biden personally participated in the "dignity transfer" ceremony of three U.S. soldiers who died at a military base in Jordan at Doho Air Force Base in Delaware.
This solemn ceremony, which has a long history, is the process of transferring the remains of fighters from aircraft to vehicles on standby when they return to the territory of the United States. However, this ceremony, which has become relatively rare, has become increasingly rare in recent years when the United States withdrew its troops overseas.
At the ceremony, the 81-year-old Biden looked at the coffin of the soldier's body with sadness and tears in his eyes. The three soldiers who lost their lives in a foreign land were William Jerome Rivers, 46, Kennedy Laden Sanders, 24, and Brenna Alexandria Moffett, 23.
They served together in the same army engineer company. In addition, about 40 soldiers were injured in the attack.
The deadly attack, said to have been carried out by an Iranian drone, was carried out in the soldiers' quarters, which is why it is so serious. This incident has dealt a further blow to the already tense situation in the Middle East.
It is noteworthy that the retaliatory military operation began only a few hours after Biden attended the ceremony of the "transfer of dignity".