英语新闻阅读：拜登感谢美国军人参加日本震后救援

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　　U.S. Vice President Joe Biden wound up his Asian tour Wednesday by thanking
U.S. service members and their families for their assistance to the Japanese
people after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.Mr. Biden expressed his
appreciation to the service personnel at the Yokota Air Base outside Tokyo for
helping to save countless lives. He said they had shown the world America at its
best.The visit was the vice president's final stop before flying home at the end
of a week-long trip that also took him to China and Mongolia.
        　　U.S. military forces participated in a massive U.S. relief effort after the
March disasters, which destroyed whole towns along Japan's northeastern coast
and left more than 20,000 people dead or missing.The aircraft carrier USS Ronald
Reagan and 18 other U.S. warships took part in the effort known as Operation
Tomodachi, which is Japanese for friends.