ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (AP) — Four Americans killed in an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya returned home Friday, their remains each carried in a slow procession by six Marines as a military band filled a vast air base hangar with the mournful hymn “Nearer My God to Thee.”

President Barack Obama led the ceremony, recalling their lives in deeply personal terms and declaring the United States will never pull back on its principles or “retreat from the world.”

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