The remains of the four Americans killed
this week in the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, were
repatriated on Friday.
In a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews in
Maryland, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other
senior U.S. officials received the flag-draped coffins bearing the remains of
Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three colleagues:
Sean
Smith, a foreign service information management officer, was a 10-year State
Department veteran who earlier served six years in the U.S. Air Force. He was
on a voluntary, short-term deployment to Benghazi from his posting in The
Hague, and had previously served in Baghdad, South Africa, and Canada.
Mrs. Clinton noted that Mr. Smith was
well-known and influential in online gaming. He is survived by his wife
Heather, and two children.
• Tyrone Woods, 41, a contract security specialist, was a 20-year
veteran of the Navy SEALs, serving multiple combat tours in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Since 2010, he had worked on diplomatic security in Central
America and the Middle East.
Also a nurse and paramedic, he "had
the hands of a healer as well as the arms of a warrior," Mrs. Clinton
said. He is survived by his wife Dorothy and three sons.
• Glen Doherty, 42, a contract security specialist, was a former Navy
SEAL sniper who and served two combat tours in Iraq. An avid outdoorsman, Mr.
Doherty was at various times a ski bum, a white-water rafting guide, and a
triathlete, relatives said; fellow SEALs described him as a
jack-of-all-trades—and a master of them, too.
"He died as he lived, serving his
country and protecting his colleagues," Mrs. Clinton said at the ceremony.
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