Hundreds of people rallied in San Clemente, California, on Sept. 5 to honor the 13 U.S. service members that were killed in a terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Aug. 26 ISIS suicide bombing killed over 150 Afghan civilians and wounded at least another 18 servicemembers. Nine Marines and one Navy Hospitalman were deployed from Camp Pendleton, the major West Coast marine base only 30 minutes south of San Clemente. The crowd gathered at the intersection of Avenida Del Mar and El Camino and marched through the streets towards the city’s Marine Monument at Park Semper Fi. People gathered around the park’s Marine Memorial, where Pastor Jim Glynn, a retired marine from Camp Pendleton, addressed the crowd. “It would be wrong to only focus on the lives lost in August,” Glynn said, according to the San Clemente Times. “Since Sept. 11, 2001, 2,448 servicemembers have made the …
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