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The Warden family was there because the Casper Oilers hockey team wanted to honor Jerrod's memory and allow his parents to throw out the first puck in the game.

The funeral and procession will take place on Thursday, January 6. It will take place at Highland Park Community Church, beginning at 11am.

It was a blistering cold night in Casper on Thursday. But the cold and the wind did not stop a group of Wyoming Patriot Guard Riders and American Legion Riders from gathering to witness Lance Corporal Jerrod L. Warden come home.

The family of Rylee McCollum appeared on Fox News Tuesday Morning to speak about their boy and, in doing so, Rylee's father Jim revealed that he opted not to meet with President Biden.

Following the news of his death, many of Wyoming's leaders offered their condolences to the McCollum family, including Senator John Barrasso and Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Rylee McCollum, a Wyoming-born Marine, was one of the 13 U.S. soldiers who was killed in the suicide bombing at an Afghanistan airport in the country's capital of Kabul.

Little is known about Ray Barela's service or life, but 99% of Marines during World War II were in the South Pacific.