Afghanistan updates: Blinken faces 2nd day of grilling on Capitol Hill

Afghanistan updates: Blinken faces 2nd day of grilling on Capitol Hill

Public funerals are being held this week for the service members killed in last month's ISIS-K suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

On Tuesday, thousands attended a public funeral at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Lawerence, Massachusetts, for Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, one of two women killed in the attack.

Police officers salute the casket of Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo during her public viewing at Veterans Memorial Stadium, Sept. 14, 2021, in Lawrence, Massachusetts.

A funeral service was held Monday morning in Milan, Ohio, for Navy Corpsman Maxton Soviak, 22, at the Edison High School Stadium -- Soviak's alma mater.

The U.S. Navy Honor Guard carries the casket of Navy Corpsman Maxton Soviak at Edison High School Stadium, Monday, Sept. 13, 2021, in Milan, Ohio.

Max Soviak was killed along with 12 other U.S. service members in a suicide bombing outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 26, 2021.

On Sunday, residents of Logansport, Indiana, watched the funeral procession of Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, 22, as his body was returned to his hometown.

An undated photo of Humberto Sanchez, 22, a Marine among the thirteen U.S. service members who were killed in a deadly airport suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 26, 2021.

-ABC News' Meredith Deliso, Miles Cohen, Luis Martinez, and Jennifer Watts

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