Two of soldier's children die in car accident on way to see him at Army hospital
Latest News | WFAA.com: "Army Spc. John Austin Johnson seemed to have a gift for evading tragedy. Army Spc. JohnAustin Johnson and wife Lisa's children Ashley, 5, and Logan, 2, died in a car wreck last week. Tyler, 9, was on life support Saturday.
During two years in Iraq, the soldier from Fort Bliss, in West Texas, survived five improvised explosive device blasts and several grenade attacks. 'A lot of people go through one IED and don't survive,' said Army Sgt. 1st Class Eugene Schmidt.
But Spc. Johnson's luck began to turn with the last IED blast, which left him with a traumatic brain injury. Back in Texas for care at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, he was eagerly awaiting a visit by his wife and three children last weekend. But the children never arrived.""I went up to his room and told him there was a problem," said Sgt. Schmidt, an Army medic who has grown close to the family over the last week. "I told him there was an accident and two of his children were deceased.
"He said, 'Two of my children are dead?' And we started crying."
Driving across the plains from El Paso, Spc. Johnson's wife, Lisa, had encountered a ferocious wind gust in her Chevrolet Trailblazer, Sgt. Schmidt said. "She steered and overcorrected, and the car rolled over four times."
Monday, October 22, 2007
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