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Less than 24 hours later, two uniformed service members showed up on the doorstep of Oneida and Shawn Sanders in the small town of Waycross, Ga.

“Just to say everything is racist, that is falling on deaf ears,” said Rep. James Burchett, a Republican from Waycross, Georgia.

Kennedy Sanders was held in the packed 1,200-seat auditorium of Ware County Middle School in Waycross.

Sanders came from Waycross on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp and worked at a local pharmacy.

In Waycross, where 24-year-old Sanders worked at a pharmacy and helped coach children’s basketball and soccer teams, residents gathered at a downtown park for a moment of silence shortly after the overseas attack.