A soldier says don’t forget the families on Veterans Day

The memories are a year old, but still are fresh. “I feel very fortunate. When I look at the scene and I examine the photos they’ve taken. It’s nothing short of a miracle that I’m still here,” said Col. Christopher Colavita, the Executive Officer to the Executive Deputy to the Commanding General at Army Materiel Command Headquarters.

The photos Colonel Colavita is talking about aren’t available for casual viewing. They show the death and destruction following a suicide bombing attack inside Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. It happened in November of 2016.

There are other photos of a memorial service for the two soldiers and two contractors who died in the bombing. Another soldier would eventually die from his wounds, but that would be back in the states. Colonel Christopher Colavita was in the group of 15 who were in the blast zone when the bomb was detonated. “My wounds were relatively minor to what everybody else’s were. The gentleman to my immediate right was killed. People in front of me were seriously wounded and killed,” said Col. Colavita.

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