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Relatives of the fallen were hidden from view behind a line of buses. Inside they spent a minute in prayer, before emerging and taking up their positions beside the plane to watch the bodies being removed.

He then walked with other dignitaries - including his Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and the heads of the military and the first lady - across the air base apron and up the ramp of the C-17. war in Afghanistan.īut instead he and the first lady spent the first part of the morning meeting privately with the families of the fallen. It was the sort of grief-stricken day he wanted to consign to history by ending the U.S. Their remains arrived at Dover Air Force Base, at 8am for a 'dignified transfer, when fallen troops' return to American soil is marked by a solemn movement. The 13 killed on Thursday were Navy corpsman Max Soviak, Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss, and Marines Hunter Lopez, Rylee McCollum, David Lee Espinoza, Kareem Nikoui, Jared Schmitz, Daegan Page, Taylor Hoover, Humberto Sanchez, Johanny Rosario, Dylan Merola and Nicole Gee. He stood in silence, his right hand to his chest, as a succession of flag draped transfer cases were carried past him from a C-17 Globemaster plane. President Biden made an unannounced trip to Delaware on Sunday morning for a ceremony to honor the service members killed by an ISIS-K suicide bomber. 'I woke up at four'o'clock this morning to Marines at my door telling me my son was dead,' she said in the emotional account. 'And that feckless, dementia ridden piece of crap just sent my son to die.' ' getting ready to come home from freaking Jordan to be with his wife to watch the birth of his son,' McCollum said. 'My son was one of the Marines that died yesterday,' Kathy McCollum said in a radio interview on Friday of her 20-year-old late son Rylee.

The mother of a Marine killed in the Kabul airport attack called President Joe Biden a 'dementia-riddent piece of crap' as the president meets with families of the 13 fallen service members on Sunday

Who said america home of the free because of the brave