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UPDATE: Memorial for Sikh temple shooting victims concludes

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OAK CREEK (WKOW) -- Hundreds attended a memorial service Friday to pay their final respects to the six people killed Sunday at an Oak Creek Sikh temple.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Gov. Scott Walker, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, and other dignitaries attended Friday's ceremony.

Holder told mourners memorializing  the six victims that America is rallying around them in support. Holder spoke on behalf of President Barack Obama.

Holder says the fatal shooting rampage at the Oak Creek temple Sunday was not only an attack on the Sikh community, but an attack on the values of America itself. He says the Sikh community has inspired the country with its compassionate response to evil.

Gov. Walker says the Sikh community has shown everyone that the best way to respond to hate is with love.

Friday's memorial service drew hundreds to the Oak Creek High School gymnasium where open, wooden caskets of the six victims were on display. A large video screen flashes photos of those killed and injured.

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OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) - A memorial service for six worshippers killed in the shooting at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee is under way at a local high school.

Hundreds gathered in the Oak Creek High School gymnasium Friday where six caskets are standing as photos of those killed flash across a large video screen and a Sikh priest speaks in the native Indian Punjabi.

Mourners are wearing scarves on their heads in Sikh tradition.

After the visitation and service, Sikhs plan to return to the temple where the shootings occurred. Members have spent the last day painting walls and replacing blood-stained carpet.

Five days ago, white supremacist Wade Michael Page shot and killed six people and critically wounded three others inside and outside the temple.

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