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Joe Biden Writes An Open Letter To Stanford Survivor
The vice president, in an open letter sent to BuzzFeed News, said “a lot of people failed” the Stanford sexual assault survivor and that she will “save lives” thanks to the powerful message she read to her assailant in court.
Biden, who wrote the 1994 Violence Against Women Act and is involved in the White House’s “It’s On Us” campaign against campus sexual assault, sent the letter to BuzzFeed News on Thursday. In it, he said he is “filled with furious anger—both that this happened to you and that our culture is still so broken that you were ever put in the position of defending your own worth.” He said the woman’s actions “will save lives.”
“I do not know your name—but I know that a lot of people failed you that terrible January night and in the months that followed,” Biden wrote. “It must have been wrenching—to relive what he did to you all over again. But you did it anyway, in the hope that your strength might prevent this crime from happening to someone else. Your bravery is breathtaking.”
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Explore Redwood National and State Parks for an otherworldly experience! Located in far north California, the park’s crowning feature: The majestic redwood forests – home to the tallest trees on Earth. As the morning’s first light streams through the towering trees and the misty, it creates surreal experience. Photo courtesy of Scotty Perkins.
Sunsets are amazing at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. Randy Langstraat captured this pic from Cape Royal — a point that provides a panorama up, down, and across the canyon. With seemingly unlimited vistas to the east and west, it is popular for both #sunrise and #sunset. Cape Royal is on the more remote and less visited North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Photo from www.sharetheexperience.org.