‘Brothers’ bid farewell to fallen Marine

This band of brothers did not wear the uniform of their fallen comrade. They wore dark suits like the other mourners who packed into St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Severn yesterday to say goodbye to Lance Cpl. Eric W. Herzberg.

Bonded by tribulations and joys of high school life, forged in adolescent doubt and bravado, they came together from colleges and jobs across the country. They stood together at the altar to make their peace as a team.

Today they gathered again to lay him to rest among the rows of marble monuments to the nation’s fallen at Arlington National Cemetery.

“Eric was more than a friend, he was a...