Video (00:39) : Mourners lined the streets of Waseca, Minn., to pay tribute to Marine Lance Cpl. Caleb Erickson, 20, who died Feb. 28 from injuries he received in an attack by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
Marine Lance Cpl. Caleb Erickson was laid to rest Monday after funeral services at Grace Lutheran Church in Waseca, Minn. Erickson, 20, a 2012 Waseca High School graduate, was a gunner in the last truck of a convoy when he was killed Feb. 28 in a suicide bombing. "He had a mind-set to be a Marine since he was age 16," his father said.
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