Aaron Futrell was serving in Iraq when an Iranian ballistic missile landed 100 yards from his bunker. Yet he’s not angry at Donald Trump for downplaying the side effects.
The boom of a cannon fired by Civil War enactors on the far side of a local craft fair last month sent retired Ohio National Guard Staff Sgt. Aaron Futrell back four years to
“The loudest thing you’ve ever heard in your life,” Futrell recalled of the missile that landed closest to the bunker where he sought shelter after hearing an alert on the base public address system. “It’s like fireworks multiplied by a thousand and when they hit the ground, it feels like God just punched the earth. The whole ground vibrates.The air around you vibrates. The blast wave, like, feels like you got smacked in the face.
Trump added, “None of those very accurate missiles hit our fort. They all hit outside. There was nobody hurt, other than the sound was loud. Some people said that hurt, and I accept that.”“Not many people understand traumatic brain injury,” Futrell told the Daily Beast. “It’s not just him, right? It’s been everybody from the VA . It’s been everybody in the army. So far, everybody I’ve run into in this entire process has downplayed TBI.
Futrell had not allowed his very real injury to keep him from completing his deployment, which had begun just three weeks before the attack. It was supposed to end after nine months, but it was extended a month. He stuck it out to the end.“He should know better, yeah. But nobody else knows better.” He retired with a 90 percent disability. He drew some comfort from the army’s decision to award him a Purple Heart more than a year after the attack.
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