Three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan, 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul in 2021 will be honored at the Capitol posthumously.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is hosting a ceremony Tuesday to present the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor, to the 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

The Corryton native died in a suicide attack in Kabul as America pulled out its troops. Family members of the 13 who died gathered at the Capitol.

House and Senate leaders on Tuesday commemorated 13 U.S. servicemembers killed by a suicide bomber three years ago at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan, pausing for an hour the ongoing partisan blame-casting over the attack.

U.S. congressional leaders on Tuesday posthumously awarded the congressional gold medal to 13 service members killed in the Aug. 26, 2021, suicide bombing at Kabul's airport during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.