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The casket of Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, a U.S. Marine who was among 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, is carried into the Farrah Funeral Home in her hometown of Lawrence, Mass, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Residents watch the funeral procession for Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, a U.S. Marine who was among 13 service members killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, in Lawrence, Mass, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) People visit the National September 11 Memorial in New York on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. .(David Handschuh/Pool Photo via AP) Mourners stand at the rim of the north pool with the white World Trade Center Oculus in the background after the conclusion of ceremonies to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden lay a wreath at the Wall of Names during a visit to the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa., Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. The Bidens visited to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Flowers adorn the names of people who were killed during the attacks on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, as families gather at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool) The photos of two firefighters killed at the World Trade Center sit in the hat of Assistant Chief John Pristas of the Cranberry Township Volunteer Fire Company, as he waits to perform taps to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at Station 21, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Cranberry, Pa. The company has a permanent memorial, including a piece of steel from the World Trade Center, which gives local residents who can't travel to New York City a place to commemorate the day, according to Jeff Berneberg, a member of the CTVFC. Pristas performed taps six times to mark the four plane crashes and collapse of each of the twin towers. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke) Flags and flowers adorn the names of the victims of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool) Julie Sweeney Roth, whose husband, Brian Sweeney Roth died when United Airlines flight 175 hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, touches his inscribed name Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool) Flags and flowers adorn the names of the victims of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool) Flags adorn the inscribed names of the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, at the National September 11 Memorial in New York on the 20th anniversary of the attacks, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (Craig Ruttle/Newsday via AP, Pool) Family of Flight 93 first officer Leroy Homer walk along the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. before a Service of Remembrance Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, as the nation marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) A National Park Service ranger stands in front of the Wall of Names at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pa. before a Service of Remembrance Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, as the nation marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)