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  • Veteran lends hand to soldier's family

    12/21/2003 1:46:57 PM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 4 replies · 192+ views
    San Antonio Express-News ^ | 12/21/2003 | John MacCormack
    SINTON — The emergency message that Army Staff Sgt. Camilo Hernandez received in northern Iraq on Thanksgiving was the one that every American soldier serving overseas fears the most. "His friend just e-mailed him quickly, 'You need to call your wife. Your home in Texas burned down,'" recalled Mona Hernandez, who made it out safely ahead of the flames with her two young sons. "He called me the following day. I was crying and he was scared. He didn't know what was going on," she said of her husband, who left in March and doesn't know when he will return....