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Both soldiers were posthumously promoted to the rank of staff sergeant.
The caskets of Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, 25, and William Nathanial Howard, 29, were returned to Des Moines, Iowa, and greeted by their families on the tarmac.
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Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
The soldiers’ remains were first flown to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, where President Donald Trump paid his respects and met with family members of the deceased.
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Following the attack, President Donald Trump promised “a lot of damage done to the people that did it.”
Ayad Mansoor Sakat, of Macomb, Michigan, a U.S. civilian working as an interpreter, was also killed in the attack. He was buried in Michigan over the weekend, the AP reported.
Citing the Iowa National Guard, the AP said that soldiers’ funerals will take place in the coming days.
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https://www.theblaze.com/news/national-guard-members-killed-in-syria-attack-returned-to-families-in-iowa
