An upstate New York community is mourning a Marine killed in Afghanistan two months before he was to get married.
Hundreds of people gathered Saturday in Rome to pay respects to U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Daniel Geary. The 22-year-old died last week when a bomb hit his Humvee.
His flag-draped coffin was carried up the steps of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church as bells pealed. Geary is being buried with full military honors.
He joined the Marines after graduating from high school. He was on was his second tour of duty, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. His family says he wanted to sign on for a third tour. The first was in Iraq.
Geary planned to get married in May.
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