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A year later, communities find ways to honor 13 service members killed in Kabul airport bombing
August 27, 2022 3:32PM ET
SAN DIEGO — Most of them were based at Camp Pendleton, but they came from all over America, from small towns and suburbs. And that's where the sorrow and the pride linger, one year later. The 13 U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport bombing are being remembered with memorials of various kinds — charity foundations, renamed streets, a mural — in places like Rancho Cucamonga, Berlin Heights, Ohio, and Lawrence, Mass. From sea to shining sea. The explosion on Aug. 26, 2021, was a disastrous punctuation mark on two weeks of chaos that unfolded as the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan after...