Wounded Iraq Veteran Loses Three Children in Car Crash

I don't even know what to say about this story, except fuck this fucking war and fuck the twisted fates that turned these events:

Army Spc. John Austin Johnson was waiting for his wife, Lisa, and their three kids to visit him at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio when the deadly crash occurred on Interstate 10 about 12 miles east of Ozona.

Lisa Johnson overcorrected the steering in her sport utility vehicle after encountering a blast of wind on the drive from El Paso, causing the car to roll at least four times, officials have said.

The couple's youngest children, 2-year-old Logan and 5-year-old Ashley, died at the scene. Tyler Johnson suffered massive head injuries [and died Saturday after hanging on for three weeks].

…Johnson, who is stationed at Fort Bliss, has survived five brushes with improvised explosive device blasts during two years in Iraq, Schmidt said last month. The latest left him with a traumatic brain injury, and he speaks with a severe stutter.

In the comments section at the link, there's a lot of blaming going on because the two older children were not wearing seatbelts, and I don't want to see that here. My parents were always ferociously insistent that my sister and I wore seatbelts—and, at that age, there was more than one occasion when I quietly slipped out of it during long road trips without their knowing. Even the most responsible parents in the world have kids that do stupid things, and the difference between doesn't matter and a life-altering tragedy happens in a mere moment.

According to the El Paso Times, Bank of America has established a memorial fund in the youngest children's names. "A contribution may be made at any Bank of America in the country by giving the teller the exact fund name ["the Ashley and Logan Johnson Memorial Fund"] and noting that it is domiciled in Texas."