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Kerry Meets With Parents of Diplomat Killed in Afghanistan

CHICAGO — Secretary of State John Kerry met here privately on Monday with the parents of Anne Smedinghoff, the young State Department officer who was killed this month in Afghanistan. She was the first State Department officer to die in the line of duty since the September attack on the United States diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya.

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Mr. Kerry, who was visibly moved by the reports of Ms. Smedinghoff’s death, has repeatedly invoked her memory during his travels.

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Her life, Mr. Kerry said, had been “wiped out by terrorism, the worst kind of nihilism.”

“It doesn’t stand for anything except killing people and stopping the future,” he said. “And so we’re not going to be deterred. We’re going to be inspired.”