evidence: I imagine he was thinking not only of the brave Americans who lost their lives on December 7, 1941, but of the friends he had served with and lost in the Pacific where he had been the Navy’s youngest aviator. [...] But as I’ve said, and John knows even after our toughest fights, John, saying to me, call me saying, "You know Biden should be taken off the ticket." And then he’d call me to say, "I didn’t really mean that. I don’t know what the hell made me say that." [...] And if you allow me to point a personal privilege again, we used to say in the Senate, and I want to say John how much your example of service and duty, courage and loyalty inspired my Beau in his decision as an Army National Guard Captain, later Major, to give up his Attorney General seat, turned it over to Republican to get permission to be able to go to Iraq for a year because his unit was going.