 He's also a deeply empathetic person. He actually does care about people. He's married to a daughter of Indian immigrants. He is the American dream. His family is the American dream. For those of you who don't know, he was raised largely by his grandmother in Appalachia. Dirt poor. Family battled with drugs and alcohol. He wound up becoming a Marine. Joe Biden voted for the Iraq War. J.D. Vance served in the Iraq War in combat as a Marine.