With tomorrow being Father’s Day, I was thinking back to the day that I first learned about Brian’s near-fatal injuries on the battlefield in Afghanistan. There was a knock on the door at seven o’clock in the morning, and I could see men in uniform outside the window.
I feared the worst, and I didn’t know whether Brian was dead or alive. Our six month old son had just been born, and I began to fear that he would be growing up without a father in his life. It was the most nerve-wracking experience I can remember.
But by the grace of God, my worst fear didn’t come true. I was told that Brian wasn’t dead, just badly hurt after an IED detonated beneath him in Afghanistan, taking both of his legs and a finger… but not his life.
This year has been perhaps the most painful for Brian since that moment though, which is why it’s so important to me that we support him this Father’s Day.
That’s because, just months ago, Joe Biden abandoned that very mission where I nearly lost Brian. It was hard for my husband and so many other Afghanistan veterans seeing the mission they sacrificed so much for end in such a heart-breaking manner.
