“I’ve been a military spouse long enough to know that if an unknown number calls you, you answer it,” Bugge said. While a pregnant Bugge and the couple’s two other children were out shopping, her husband went to a personal diving course he had enrolled in using his GI Bill.Īshley Bugge attends her husband's memorial service. “Instead, they notified me he had been killed.”Īshley Bugge, whose husband, Ensign Brian Bugge, 35, served in the Navy, received a different kind of phone call that would change her life forever. I wanted Chris to call me and be like ‘God, you overreacted like a crazy person,’ she said.
A short while later, a car with government tags arrived. Unable to shake her fears, Harris decided to go home. Harris went back to work and called her family readiness group, which told her they were unable to say anything until next of kin could be notified in-person. “It’s Chris," she thought immediately, doing her best to remove the notion from her mind. But while waiting for food, she saw a notification on her phone from American Military News that two soldiers had been killed in Kandahar. She and a friend went to lunch, Harris hoping the distraction would ease her nerves. “I have pretty bad anxiety, but I hadn’t heard from him,” she said. In the middle of a messaging thread centered around housing possibilities, Harris suddenly stopped replying. The couple was looking for houses for their growing family while Harris was deployed. She was newly and unexpectedly pregnant and had just given the news to her recently deployed husband, Spc. Simpson died on May 1, five days after the IED blast. “She let me, and it was such a special moment.” I asked her if I could help,” Anderson said. “In the middle of the night, the nurse came in and wanted to wash him up and change his dressings.
There Anderson remained until she fell asleep, praying. (Photo courtesy of Krista Simpson Anderson)Īfter calling everyone to share the news, she crawled into bed with him and listened to his heart - still beating. Michael Simpson is carried off the plane at Dover AFB.
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