Former Vice President Joe Biden defended the inaccurate war story he told during a rally last Friday in New Hampshire, saying the “central point” of it was true.

Biden said he had traveled to Afghanistan’s Kunar province to award the Silver Star to a Navy captain who had rappelled down a cliff to retrieve the body of a fellow service member. When Biden went to pin the medal onto the captain, he begged him not to because the person had died.

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