Couple’s Battle With Effects Of War Is Not Over, But They Are Winning

Photo: Army Staff Sgt. Bryan Gansner, here in his dress uniform, was six weeks away from coming home when he was severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Soldiering On: Knoxville Couple’s Battle With Effects Of War Isn't Over, But They're Winning -- Knoxnews

Three a.m. on a rainy July morning. Her phone rings. Iraq is calling. Cheryl Gansner's heart pounds.

The voice on the phone 6,000 miles away isn't her husband, Army Staff Sgt. Bryan Gansner with the 101st Airborne Division. It's a lieutenant colonel.

A roadside bomb exploded. Bryan is seriously injured.

"All I could do was listen. I just said 'OK, OK, OK,' to everything he said," remembers Cheryl. "I was in shock. I didn't even think to ask if anyone else was injured or was he going to die."

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My Comment: A moving story .... a perfect last post for the Fourth of July.