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)
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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,...
