President Biden and the First Lady were on hand to pay their respects as the plane touched down.
He met in private with the families of those who died to grieve with them for their loved ones following the ‘dignified transfer’ of remains, a military ritual for those killed in foreign combat.
Five were just 20, born not long before the attacks of September 11, 2001, that spurred the United States to invade Afghanistan. In this image provided by the US Marine Corps, pallbearers, kneel during a ramp ceremony on August 27 Service members assigned to Joint Task Force-Crisis Response are pallbearers on August 27
All of the 13 were on the ground to assist the evacuation of Americans and of Afghans who helped the US war effort and are now fleeing the Taliban after their return to power. Family members of the fallen often travel to Dover Air Force Base to be present as flag-draped transfer cases are taken off the transport plane that takes them home.
In 2008, while a senator and at the request of the grieving family, he attended one for a soldier killed in a car bombing in Iraq.
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