Prince Harry and America's First Lady Jill Biden paid tribute to the war-wounded Americans on Monday, September 13 in a virtual ceremony for the Warrior Games, a sports competition for wounded soldiers, canceled this year due to the pandemic of Covid-19.
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The Warrior Games
"inspired me to create the Invictus Games"
, a similar competition which first took place in 2014 in London, recalled the Duke of Sussex, who served in the British army in Afghanistan.
"These games are important,"
said the troublemaker of the British royal family, who spoke from California where he is installed with his wife Meghan Markle. Regretting that this year he could not support the competitors of the Warrior Games in Orlando, Florida, he recalled that this competition was intended to "
take care of the physical as well as the mental health of those who have sacrificed so much"
.
The wife of President Joe Biden paid tribute to Prince Harry, recalling having attended the first "Invictus Games" at his side, before discussing the attacks of September 11 which led to the war in Afghanistan, there is just 20 years.
“There was a call to stand up for the values we hold dear when we waged a global war on terrorism and a courageous group of men and women said: I’m going,”
he said. she called back.
"And you were one of them, Harry,"
she added.
“Your life is guided by a simple principle: we fought together, we will heal together.
It is a philosophy that has no flag, where your brothers and sisters in arms have in common much more than the borders that separate us, and you have devoted your time, your talent and your heart to soldiers around the world. . "
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Jill Biden praised
"the courage, sacrifice and resilience"
of injured and disabled soldiers, who trained for months before seeing this competition like the Paralympic Games canceled at the last moment. “
By participating in the Warrior Games, you have not only overcome your injuries, visible and invisible,”
she concluded.
"You have shown us that our difficulties should never define us."
