"We recited the poetry of Seamus Heaney together, the same one he used to read as a young man. That meant a lot to him that I was able to recite that to him. "Joe Biden is a hero to many of us.

The following is an excerpt from the poem: "My daddy is a hero. He died getting the bad guys, that's what he was good at. He is a Marine. He is a Police Officer. He is kind and patient.