U.S. Border Patrol agents honor fallen comrades

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Border agents on Thursday honored their fallen comrades with a floral offering, reading of their names out loud and firing a 21-gun salute at the National Border Patrol Museum in Northeast El Paso.One hundred and fifty-three agents have died on the job since the U.S. Border Patrol was created in 1924 in circumstances as diverse as being run over by smugglers to succumbing to heat exhaustion in the desert to perishing in rollover accidents during pursuits.El