Biden Attends Memorial Day Ceremony, Pays Tribute to Fallen Service Members

President Joe Biden speaks at a Memorial Day event at Veterans Memorial Park at the Delaware Memorial Bridge in New Castle, Del., on May 30, 2021. Patrick Semansky/AP Photo

President Joe Biden marked Memorial Day with a speech at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia that made reference to U.S. soldiers who have died in past conflicts.

“We owe the honored dead a debt we can never fully repay,” Biden said. “We owe them our whole souls. We owe them our full best efforts to perfect the union for which they died.”