U.S. Marines carry the casket containing the body of Cpl. Dan Baldassare, a Marine killed in a military plane crash in Mississippi, during funeral services for Baldassare at the Colts Neck High School football field, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Colts Neck, N.J. Baldassare was among 15 Marines and a Navy sailor who died when the military transport plane slammed into soybean fields in the Mississippi Delta on July 10. Baldassare had graduated from the school in 2015 and played on its football team for four years. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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