Military families cope with Sandy aftermath
Photo credit: Newsday / Danielle Finkelstein | Grant Guirl, 28, holds his son, Aiden, 5, in front of what remains of his Broad Channel home. Guirl, a Navy officer, was based on a supply ship docked in North Carolina during superstorm Sandy and couldn't get home to his wife and two children. (Nov. 9, 2012)
As his wife fled with their two young children through knee-deep water as Sandy ravaged their Queens home, Grant Guirl was nowhere near to help.
Nor was the Navy man around to comfort his sobbing 5-year-old son Aiden after the wind and water had receded, as the child's waterlogged toys and bed were tossed into a trash truck and hauled away.
While his family fled to a relative's house,...
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