A funeral service was held Monday morning in Milan, Ohio, for Navy Corpsman Maxton Soviak, 22, who was killed in the Kabul airport suicide bombing. The service was held at the Edison High School Stadium -- Soviak's alma mater.

He played football and wrestled before graduating in 2017. School leaders remembered him as "full of life in everything he did."

"Max was a good student who was active in sports and other activities throughout his school career," Superintendent Thomas Roth said in a statement to ABC News. "He was well respected and liked by everyone who knew him."

Soviak enlisted in September 2017 and was assigned to the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, and based in Camp Pendleton, California. He served as a hospital corpsman, or medic.

"He was very passionate about helping his fellow Americans and trying to get them home safely," Rachel Soviak, his mother, said in a statement. "There are no words to describe the pain our family is feeling. There will forever be a hole in our hearts."

Soviak is survived by his mother, father and 12 brothers and sisters.

-ABC News' Meredith Deliso, Miles Cohen, Luis Martinez, and Jennifer Watts

Secretary of State Blinken will be in the hot seat on Capitol Hill this week as the Biden administration's point person to defend the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan to angry lawmakers from both parties.

In testimony on Monday before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Blinken will use the same defenses the administration has used for weeks now, according to his opening statement obtained by ABC News.

"There's no evidence that staying longer would have made the Afghan security forces or the Afghan government any more resilient or self-sustaining. If 20 years and hundreds of billions of dollars in support, equipment, and training did not suffice, why would another year, or five, or ten, make a difference?" read his prepared remarks.

His opening statement blames the Trump administration’s deal with Taliban to withdraw by May 1 deadline, says NATO allies were on board, cites the travel warnings for American citizens to leave, defends their efforts to revive the Special Immigrant Visa Program, and says no one saw the Afghan government's collapse coming so swiftly.

"Nonetheless, we planned and exercised a wide range of contingencies," he is expected to say -- praising the evacuations as "an extraordinary effort under the most difficult conditions imaginable" and reminding lawmakers that previous administrations shuttered embassies and withdrew from countries while leaving some U.S. citizens behind -- "for example, in Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia."

On Sunday, residents of Logansport, Indiana, watched the funeral procession for Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto Sanchez, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the Aug. 26 ISIS-K suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.

Sanchez, 22, was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, I Marine Expeditionary Force, and based in Camp Pendleton, California. He was a graduate of Logansport High School.

-ABC News' Meredith Deliso, Miles Cohen, Luis Martinez, and Jennifer Watts

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will likely face tough questions from House lawmakers at 2 p.m. when he testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee -- the first Capitol Hill hearing on Afghanistan since the chaotic U.S. evacuation mission ended.

Frustrated Republicans are expected to press Blinken on Americans still stranded in the country as well as vetting for Afghan refugees in the U.S., and Democrats to defend the Biden administration for ending America's longest war.

Biden administration officials, including Blinken, have blamed the now-failed Afghan government for collapsing so quickly to the Taliban as the U.S. continues its "diplomatic" mission in the country, without State of Defense Department officials on the ground.

Following Monday's expected grilling, Blinken is scheduled to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.