President Meets With Fallen Marine's Family
21-Year-Old Killed Overseas
POSTED: 6:17 pm EDT August 31, 2009
YARMOUTH, Mass. -- When President Barack Obama left Sen. Edward Kennedy's funeral, he had one more stop planned in Massachusetts at Cape Cod Air Station for a private, undisclosed meeting with the family of a fallen Marine from Yarmouth -- Nicholas Xiarhos.
"This is the coin he gave me when he walked up to shake hands. He stuck it in there. It says his name -- president of the United States," Nicholas' father, Steve Xiarhos, said.
In February, Nicholas Xiarhos had met Obama when he spoke at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where the Marine corporal was stationed after his first tour of duty in Iraq. His father said he called home right away to tell his family he was volunteering for duty in Afghanistan.
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