Mississippi and U.S. Marine Corps officials dedicated a memorial yesterday to the 15 Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman who died in a plane crash last year.

Hundreds of relatives and friends of the 16 victims gathered for ceremonies at Mississippi Valley State University and the nearby memorial.

“All we want to do is talk about them and share who they were with the rest of the world,” said Anna Johnson, widow of Gunnery Sgt. Brendan Johnson, a crew member.

The special forces Marines aboard the KC-130T military transport plane were going from North Carolina to California for training when it crashed July 10, 2017. The aircraft was flown by a New York-based Marine Reserve unit and known by the call sign Yanky 72.

Following the service, the crowd was driven in buses for the unveiling of the nearby memorial, which displays an image of a KC-130T plane set in granite and surrounded in a circle by the engraved names of the fallen.

“Your loss has become our loss,” Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant told those who had come from as far away as Ireland for the ceremony.

No cause for the plane crash has been released, as the investigation continues.