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Rylee McCollum homecoming

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Tori Kemper, Casualty Officer with the Salt Lake City Inspector-Instructor Staff & Rifle Company F (-) 2d Battalion, 23rd Marines, speaks with Sgt. Harley Bishop, a Marine from Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum's unit who asked to accompany his remains home to Jackson. "I told him that I knew it was hard to bring a fallen brother home, and seeing his family standing next to us," Staff Sgt. Kemper said. "I told him to never hold anything in or to let it build up and that I was always here for him to talk to; that he did an honorable thing not only for [McCollum's] family, but for our fallen brother.”

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U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Tori Kemper, Casualty Officer with the Salt Lake City Inspector-Instructor Staff & Rifle Company F (-) 2d Battalion, 23rd Marines, speaks with Sgt. Harley Bishop, a Marine from Lance Cpl. Rylee McCollum's unit who asked to accompany his remains home to Jackson. "I told him that I knew it was hard to bring a fallen brother home, and seeing his family standing next to us," Staff Sgt. Kemper said. "I told him to never hold anything in or to let it build up and that I was always here for him to talk to; that he did an honorable thing not only for [McCollum's] family, but for our fallen brother.”