This is a horrible, horrible story.

[Midlodemocrat]

:cry:

SAN ANTONIO -- Two children of a Fort Bliss soldier flown back from Iraq with combat injuries are dead and a third is on life support following a car accident on the way to visit their father in the hospital, Army officials said.

Army Spc. John Austin Johnson was waiting for his wife and three kids to visit him at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio last week when another soldier told him his family's car had rolled over four times in the gusty West Texas plains.

"He said, 'Two of my children are dead?"' Army Sgt. 1st Class Eugene Schmidt told The Dallas Morning News. "And we started crying."



Schmidt said Johnson's wife, Lisa, overcorrected the steering in her sport utility vehicle after encountering a blast of wind on the drive from El Paso.

http://www.ksat.com/news/14390162/detail.html

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Oh, I saw that, my dear Midlo...

I was aghast, speechless...

:cry:

[AllegroRondo]

2. Wow, that sucks.

but it really shows how unsafe SUVs are. They are 15 times more likely to roll over in an accident, especially quick steering changes at high speeds.

[malta blue]

3. I Just saw this story as well.

How tragic! :cry:

It's bad enough to have had a loved one injured in this unjust war, and then this is truly the insult upon the injury.

:mad:

[Orsino]

4. Iraq: *'s gift that keeps on giving. n/t