ABINGTON, Mass. (WHDH) — Thousands of people waited in line Wednesday night to pay their respects to Daniel Vasselian, a Marine from Abington who was killed in Afghanistan.
“It was an honor to come up here and see him and his family. Obviously it’s sad but we tried to look at the good times we had with him,” Sgt. Ambros Brady, one of Vasselian’s friends, said.
The 27-year-old was killed in combat. He had just celebrated his fourth wedding anniversary days earlier with his high school sweetheart.
Friends of the fallen hero are banding together and wearing a special pin in honor of sergeant Vasselian that includes his picture from boot camp.
“He deserves this amount of people paying their respects to him because he was a good leader and a good example. You didn’t even have to know him too well to know he had a presence, he had character and he had values,” Michael Ayers, a friend of Vasselian's, said.
Vasselian’s funeral service will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday. Police will begin closing roads in the area at 8 a.m.