Even though White House Press Secretary Jay Carney thinks “Benghazi happened a long time ago,” the four people killed in the attacks are just now being officially honored.
On Friday, almost eight months after the attacks on the U.S. mission in Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, Secretary of State John Kerry and Vice President Joe Biden will honor the victims, as well as four other diplomats killed in the line of duty.
Biden, Kerry and other administration officials will unveil the addition of the names to the Memorial Plaque in the lobby of the U.S. State Department building in this year’s plaque ceremony.
Along with the four Benghazi victims — Stevens, Sean Patrick Smith, Ty Woods and Glen A. Doherty — the plaque will honor U.S. Foreign Service Officer Anne T. Smedinghoff, USAID employee Ragaei Abdelfattah and Joseph Fandino and Francis Savage, two Foreign Service members who died during the Vietnam war.
The American Foreign Service Association owns and maintains the plaque, which featured 244 as of May of this year.
