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'To heal, we must remember': Biden leads national mourning of nearly 400,000 Americans killed by COVID-19
Jan 19, 2021 1 min, 23 secs
But that's how we heal," Biden said from the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

"It's hard sometimes to remember," the president-elect said at a COVID-19 memorial held at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

In a visual memorial for the victims, the reflecting pool featured 400 lights illuminating on its north and south sides, creating a striking image with the rest of the National Mall dark. It was the first-ever lighting around the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool.

"Between sundown and dusk, let us shine the lights in the darkness along this sacred pool of reflection and remember all who we lost," Biden said. .

US President-elect Joe Biden attends a Covid-19 Memorial at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, on January 19, 2021 to honor the lives of those lost to Covid-19. (Photo: PATRICK T. FALLON, AFP via Getty Images).

The brief service was kicked off by an invocation from Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington and capped by music from gospel singer Yolanda Adams, who sang "Hallelujah." Biden, his wife Jill Biden, and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff stood in silent reflection during a moment of silence. .

"If there are any angels in heaven, they're all nurses," Biden said to Key, recounting what he told the archbishop before the service began. "We know from our family experience what you do, the courage and the pain you absorb for others.

Ahead of the memorial service, several families came out to wave to Biden's motorcade as it drove through Washington's Anacostia neighborhood before crossing the Anacostia River on the way to the National Mall. 

“This is kind of emotional for me,” said Biden, choking up at a send-off event before taking the short flight

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