Former Vice President Joe Biden is facing questions about a harrowing war story he tells on the campaign trail after a report in the Washington Post pointed out multiple inaccuracies in his account.
The story, which he most recently told during a town hall event in Hanover, New Hampshire last week, details the story of a"young Navy captain," as he puts it, stoically trying to reject a military medal from Biden -- who says he was then vice president -- after the captain failed to recover a fellow soldier on the battlefield.
"God's truth, my word as a Biden," he continued."He stood at attention, I went to pin him, he said: 'Sir, I don’t want the damn thing. Do not pin it on me sir, please. Do not do that. He died. He died.'" The story Biden that tells about a solider trying to reject a medal instead is based on an incident that did take place involving Army Staff Sgt. Chad Workman, who served in Afghanistan.
"His commander asked me to pin a Bronze Star on him," Biden said of the ceremony in a 2016 interview with National Geographic,"And right before this – you see the look on his face – he says, 'Sir, I don’t want it. I don’t want it. He died. He died. I didn’t do my job, sir. He died.'"
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