Mural dedicated to fallen Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo in Lawrence

LAWRENCE - A memorial was dedicated in Lawrence on Friday to honor a Marine killed in Afghanistan last year.

Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo was one of 13 U.S. service members killed on August 26, 2021, in a suicide bomber attack during the evacuation mission at the Kabul airport. She was screening women and girls at the time.

Sgt. Rosario Pichardo grew up in Lawrence. She was just 25 years old.

Friday evening a mural was dedicated in her memory at Veterans Memorial Stadium.

Retired Gen. Joseph Dunford, a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke at the ceremony, which was organized by the Merrimack Valley Community Service Corps.