Joe Biden participates in national COVID-19 memorial | USA TODAY

President-elect Joe Biden participates in national COVID-19 memorial, featuring a lighting ceremony around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C.

COVID-19 has killed more than 400,000 Americans in less than a year and infections have continued to mount across the country despite the introduction of a pair of vaccines late in 2020.

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[mercedeslahote]

YouTube really censored Amazing Grace, y’all need to fix your algorithm bc this is just insensitive

[yuanlou]

My prayers for all families who have lost their loved ones

[sindylu]

Half a million dead. And we as a nation have not been drawn to our knees to cry, have not pounded our fists for salvation. We have not wept together or found brother hood in our grief. After 911, there was unity in community, song, prayer, grief. We cried, unashamedly. We wrote songs, poems and prayers for the loss. The loss of life, innocents, security and for what we knew would be sacrificed to rectify the atrocity. We moved together as a wounded nation to heal, be better and stronger. There was no doubt then.
We are just now beginning to grasp the severity of our collective loss. Please keep loving. We have ground to cover and miles to ride. The totality of our loss is just coming in to focus. Do not lose sight because you do not believe in the ideology of the messenger. The loss is with or without them.
America.

[traepischke]

Excuse me? Amazing Grace is from the 1800s. It's Public Domain, not copyrighted.

[jamesbarry]

Amazing Grace is copyright somewhere? You silenced this song??? What in the heck is wrong with you, Google?

[NG-cxmm]

Condoleances to all who have lost someone 💛

[christopherarbor]

"If there are any angels in heaven, they're nurses."

[Seasbestormy]

Since when is Amazing Grace copyrighted?

[southernmermaid]

Thank you very much! I have lost 3 family members to Covid 19 and we could not have funerals. This helps me a tiny bit. So sad, but beautiful. 💙😭💙

[christinalouise]

Beautiful and dignified ceremony - an honourable tribute to the victims of Covid.

[adambuchbinder]

"To absent friends, in memory still bright."

[kiyonkjm_offical]

one day this country will heal.. people will remeber this pandemic for a long time.. i myself will remeber this.. anyways..

[jx]

When asked about the deaths of Americans trump said “it is what it is” Biden on the other hand joined in on this memorial to honor American lives, definitely shows the difference in their characters. Rest In Peace to everyone who has passed, this is so sad. 400k people 💔.

[allisonroberts]

“A Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.” John 1:5

[Ashley__Rose]

Well I kept it together until the first Hellujah

[elhallows]

The double meaning of healing together as a nation shouldn't escape us.

[ajeanieinbloxburg]

YouTube is so dumb for saying amazing grace is copyright, are you guys trying to make us believe it’s copyright ? Because ITS NOT! YOU PEOPLE NEED TO STOP TRYING TO BRAINWASH US AMERICANS

[lisaplay]

This is my first election in America and am happy Biden won

[nadineglowacki]

Thank you. I think this year ahead will be a time for healing for all of us.

[Lisa-yyez]

We lost way more to this than to 9/11, why are so many republicans having a hard time generating the same capacity for concern and understanding that this must be mourned?