Obama: Americans Laid Down Lives ‘In Service to Us All’
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[Updated at 3:04 p.m. ET] A ceremony at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews for the returned bodies of the four Americans killed at the Benghazi consulate has ended, and the caskets are being carried to hearses. See the 2:59 and 2:51 p.m. entries for remarks by President Barack Obama, who said the four laid down their lives “in service to us all.”
[Updated at 2:59 p.m. ET] President Barack Obama, at a ceremony at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews for the returned bodies of the four Americans killed at the Benghazi consulate, added:
“The United States of America will never retreat from the world. We will never stop working for the dignity and freedom that every (person) deserves. … That’s the essence of American leadership. … That was their work in Benghazi, and that is the work we will carry on.”