in support of fallen Staff Sgt. Louis F. Cardin, whose casket was brought from the Riverside area to Hemet.
Cardin, 27, a graduate of Temecula's Chaparral High School, was killed March 19 by rocket fire in an attack on a base in Makhmour, Iraq, a town southeast of Mosul. The rocket came from a group believed to be connected with the Islamic State.