Vigil held in Massachusetts for US Marine killed in Afghanistan
LAWRENCE, Mass. – A U.S. Marine who was among 13 killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan was honored Tuesday night in her hometown. Officials in Lawrence, Massachusetts, held a vigil with Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo's family at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Rosario, 25, died in the Aug. 26 bombing at the Kabul airport, where people were being evacuated amid the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Rosario served with the Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.