[Tissue Alert in Effect!] This is tough but important to read about the pilot of the downed Chinook, his son, wife and former spouse. It's worth your time. ...The boy replied, "As soon as he gets home, we're going to go on a camping trip, just me and him." Jessica Nichols cannot stop replaying that scene in her mind. That's because only a few days later, on Saturday night, she was cradling her boy who was crying once again. Except this time she could not tell him that his father was coming home. She had just received a call informing her that Bryan Nichols was one of the 30 Americans who died that afternoon when their Chinook helicopter was shot down in Wardak province in east-central Afghanistan... Read the whole piece here at CCN.
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