Army Veteran Shot In Back After Baseball Game

Army Veteran Shot in the Back after Baseball Game May Never Walk Again
Fox News
Sep 29, 2015

An Army vet may never walk again after he was shot in the back while leaving a St. Louis Cardinals home game on Friday.

Candis Sanna, left, and Christopher Sanna in a picture from the family's 

GoFundMe page to help pay for Christopher's medical bills. (GoFundMe)

Christopher Sanna, 43, was struck in his liver, spine and lungs, according to KMOV. His mother, Candis Sanna, posted on a GoFundMe page on Sunday that "surgeons have confirmed that his spinal injury cannot be repaired."

"They said he could eventually get a little feeling back, but there was no hope for him to walk," Candis Sanna told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "It’s horrible."

Christopher Sanna was attending the game against the Brewers with his three brothers to celebrate his mom’s 60th birthday. But he had to work Saturday morning at his job as the manager of an automotive store, and so he left the game early, with his girlfriend, while the rest of his family stayed to watch the final inning. As Sanna walked back to his car around 10:30 p.m., two armed male suspects in a black sedan confronted him and his girlfriend.

"After she gave him her purse, [one perpetrator] pulled a gun," Candis Sanna told KMOV. "That’s when they turned to run, and he shot at them twice."

Sanna served six years in the Army, stationed in Germany, according to the Post-Dispatch.
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Chris Sanna, second from right, poses for a family photo with his mother and brothers at a Cardinals game on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. He was shot during a robbery after leaving the game. Family photo.

St.Louis Cardinals fans cheer heard from Afghanistan

Missouri National Guard Cards fans cheer from Afghanistan
FS MIDWEST STAFF
Published: Friday, October 18, 2013

The spirit of the St. Louis Cardinals is alive and well in Afghanistan --
especially during the playoffs.
(Photo Courtesy: Capt. Matt McMillan, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade)

ST. LOUIS -- Next time you're watching a St. Louis Cardinals playoff game, nestled comfortably in your recliner, surrounded by friends and family, think of the men and women of the 1st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment of the Missouri National Guard. Some of them will be watching, too, but in extraordinarily different circumstances.

One big difference: They're in Afghanistan.

They have to schedule their sports viewing around military missions providing wartime aerial security and transport through the country's rugged terrain.

Meanwhile, you can gather with as many people at your home or favorite watering hole. They, on the other hand, must limit the viewing audience because if too many of them are in one place, they could become targets for enemy fire.

"Normally," says Capt. Adrienne Hatcher, a Battalion Logistics Officer from St. Louis, "we try not to do too big a gathering because it makes us sort of a target."
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