Sacrifice

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The death of a soldier the end of a life is the beginning of a story.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Across Iraq and Afghanistan on remote forward observation bases and combat outposts American soldiers depended on each other. Thrown together they breathed the same air shared the same dreams of home faced the same enemy. Many too many lived shortened lives. </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Wisconsin on an early autumn morning Kermit Hugo hears a knock peers through a window see soldiers wearing dress blue uniforms standing at his front door . . . </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Marine Sergeant Bob Kugler serving in Iraq just a few miles from his brother Mike collapses at the news-Mike has been killed . . . </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>On a summer day in California Misty Herrera Fuoco watches the news wonders if her sister Marine Sergeant Nicole Gee survived the suicide bomber's attack at Hamid Karzai airport . . .</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Colleen Whipple from Oklahoma and Helen Keiser-Pedersen from Connecticut. They watch soldiers walk toward them their sons killed side by side in the same attack in the mountains of Afghanistan . . . </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A helicopter shot down in Afghanistan the 38 men and a military combat canine aboard are killed. Navy SEAL Commander Mark Oz delivers the news to Patricia Parry Brian her son is one of the 38 . . .</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When a son or daughter sister brother husband wife mother or father is in the military the whole family is too. That's the way it works. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sacrifice</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> shares the stories of people who gave us those soldiers.</span></p>