Clovis community honors 7 US service members killed in Iran

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Photos of six U.S. work members killed successful the ongoing cognition successful Iran were displayed successful Clovis arsenic residents gathered to grant them.

Community members learned Friday that a seventh work subordinate had besides died from injuries suffered successful an Iranian attack.

Dozens of radical visited the display, placing flowers and candles successful beforehand of the images of the fallen. The tribute drew affectional responses, arsenic the struggle with Iran entered its ninth day.

Some successful attendance voiced enactment for the operation, including Iranian Americans who accidental they invited the displacement successful Iran's leadership.

Mehdi Ghajar, an Iranian American, said, "95 cardinal radical from Iran, 90 cardinal wrong and 5 cardinal diaspora, including 2 cardinal Iranian Americans, are precise grateful for the involution and the hazard that the servicemen and women are putting their lives successful warring this genocidal regime. We're highly grateful."

The memorial holds peculiar value successful Clovis. Buchanan High School, conscionable a abbreviated region away, mislaid 8 alumni successful erstwhile wars successful the Middle East, among the highest totals for immoderate schoolhouse successful the country.

Those hometown heroes, residents said, were connected their minds arsenic they gathered to retrieve the 7 work members killed successful the existent crisis.