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The Utah National Guard Guard of Honor is carrying a coffin containing the body of Major Brent R. Taylor at the National Guard Base on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 in Salt Lake City. The remains of a Utah mayor killed while he was a member of the National Guard in Afghanistan were returned to his homeland on Wednesday, November 14, 2018, while hundreds Soldiers saluted his coffin as his casket was covered with an American flag and carried off into a tarmac. a hearse. (Matt Herp / Standard-Examiner, via, Pool) lessThe Utah National Guard Guard of Honor is carrying a coffin containing the body of Major Brent R. Taylor at the National Guard Base on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 in Salt Lake City. The remains of a mayor of Utah killed during … more
Photo: Matt Herp, AP
Photo: Matt Herp, AP
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Hundreds of soldiers have greeted the flag-covered coffin of a Utah mayor killed during his military service in the National Guard in Afghanistan and whose remains have been returned to his country Wednesday.
A few hundred bikers carrying American flags waited by saluting outside the gates of the National Guard base in Salt Lake City until the hearse appeared. They accelerated their engines and followed the hearse north of Brent Taylor's hometown, North Ogden, in procession.
Taylor, 39, had taken a year-long leave as mayor for his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was training commandos as part of an effort to train and build capacity in the city. 39, Afghan National Army. He was killed during a small arms fire attack on November 3 by an Afghan commando that he was training, military officials said.
Taylor, a military intelligence officer at Joint Force Headquarters, made two visits to Iraq and was on his second visit to Afghanistan.
He is survived by his wife Jennie and their seven children aged 11 months to 13 years. His family said there was "grief but no regret" because Taylor was trying to free the others.
His wife, Jennie Taylor, said in a statement that she was wearing yellow to accommodate her "hero" and her "lover" as women since the Second World War. She stated that her husband was escorted home by her brother, another member of the National Guard.
"Major Taylor is home to his brothers In arms_his colleagues of the Utah National Guard," said Jennie Taylor. "It's a sweet day for all of us, and we hope you'll celebrate as we do, and I'm sure Brent is this memorable event at home."
The Patriot Guard Riders who organized the group of motorcyclists carried seven teddy bears on a motorcycle – one for each of Taylor's children.
"It's the least we can do." Some of us are veterans, some are not, but we are all patriots and we understand and respect the ultimate sacrifice that his family has made. consented to us, "said Reed Newman, captain of the Patriot Cavalry Guards of Utah. "He was such a patriot and such an official."
A public screening of Taylor will take place Friday night at the Dee Events Center on the campus of Weber State University in Ogden. His funeral is scheduled for Saturday at the same place.
Taylor became mayor in 2013 of the small town of North Ogden, a community of approximately 17,000 residents located approximately 65 km north of Salt Lake City.
A local hero's farewell was handed to him while he was deployed last January with locals moving up and down the street to see him leave town while the police escorted him with his family around from the community.
In his latest Facebook post, widely shared after his death, Taylor implored Americans to vote in a message that linked democracy to home and abroad.
