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February 19, 2015
Putting yourself at the abyss to serve country, then years recovering from a war injury. What do you have to show for it?
The Purple Heart given to those soldiers who've suffered wounds in combat. It's estimated 1.8 million such honors have been awarded. But there's no number of those servicemen and women who were lost in the process. Eyewitness News found one, still waiting and coping with war's wake.
"I just want to feel like I have meaning again," said Alan Kissinger. "I feel worthless"
Alan Kissinger is a marine.
"I've put on dress blues," said Kissinger. "I've fought for our country. I've watched my friends die."
He's never forgotten.
"Been smiled at by death," said Kissinger, "but I smiled back."
He is a father.
"My daugher was born while I was in Iraq," said Kissinger. "I didn't meet her until she was 6-months-old."
Then came Fallujah, Iraq on June 25, 2007.
"We heard a loud pop," said Kissinger, "a flash, and our truck filled up with smoke, and we got hit by a roadside bomb."
The roadside bomb, in the new millennium know as the improvised explosive device, the I.E.D. Alan Kissinger spent three years in a military barracks for wounded veterans, recovering from the physical wounds. But his soul is still healing, and that is not going well.
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