LOGANSPORT, Ind. — A military procession has returned the body of a Marine, who was among 13 U.S. troops killed in a suicide bombing at Afghanistan's Kabul airport, to his Indiana hometown.
The procession marked the beginning of memorial services for 22-year-old Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, of Logansport.
Sanchez's body arrived Sunday at Grissom Air Reserve Base near Peru. The procession then traveled to Logansport, where it stopped briefly under a garrison flag in the city's downtown.
Marine's body returned to Indiana hometown with procession
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People lined the route to pay their respects, and thousands of motorcycles followed the hearse carrying Sanchez's body.
Sanchez's funeral and burial are set for Tuesday in Logansport.