Vice President JD Vance He honored his mother, Beverly Aikins, at the White House on Monday in honor of her decade of sobriety.

According to the Washington examiner, “I remember when I was speaking (the Republican National Committee) that it was the craziest thing, and I even said in the speech that we will have a medal ceremony for 10 years in the White House.”

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Vice President JD Vance posed here with his wife Usha Vance, outlining his mother’s battle with his mother in his book Hillbilly Elegy: Memoirs of Family and Culture in Crisis. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“Okay, we’re here,” Vance said. “And you did it, we did it. The most important thing is that you are celebrating a very, very big milestone. I’m just proud of you.”

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Vance outlines the battle of mothers and the battle of drug abuse in his book,”Hillbilly Elegy: Memoirs of Family and Culture in Crisis“Published in 2016. Specifically, the book chronicles Aikins’ struggle with opioid addiction.

Those who joined Vance at the White House on Monday included his wife Usha Vance and the couple’s three children, according to the examiners.