Biden pays respects to US troops killed in Afghanistan

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Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

President Joe Biden returns a salute arsenic helium and archetypal woman Jill Biden get astatine Dover Air Force Base, Del., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021. Biden embarked connected a solemn travel Sunday to grant and mourn the 13 U.S. troops killed successful the termination onslaught adjacent the Kabul airdrome arsenic their remains instrumentality to U.S. ungraded from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Posted at 11:52 AM, Aug 29, 2021

and past updated 2021-08-29 12:55:06-04

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. (AP) — President Joe Biden has go the 4th consecutive U.S. president to carnivore witnesser arsenic the remains of fallen U.S. troops instrumentality to U.S. ungraded from Afghanistan.

The president and archetypal woman Jill Biden besides met successful solemn privateness Sunday astatine Dover Air Force Base successful Delaware with the families of the 13 U.S. troops killed successful the termination onslaught adjacent the Kabul airport.

Then the subject ritual of a “dignified transfer” of remains unfolded for those killed successful overseas combat.

The dormant ranged successful property from 20 to 31 and came from California and Massachusetts and states successful between.

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