President Joe Biden told U.S. service members Thursday, “Our country is counting on you” to “remember your oath” and uphold the Constitution.

The president attended a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Virginia, during which first lady Jill Biden received the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The president’s remarks to service members were part of his farewell tour in the waning days of his presidency.

“Our commitment to honor, to integrity, to unity, to protecting and defending not a person or a party or a place, but an idea — that’s the idea that generations of service members have fought for, an idea you have sworn an oath to defend as a nation,” he said, according to The Hill.

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