‘In that moment, I knew God was there’
AS HE ADMINISTERED CHEST compressions to the drowning victim, hoping to detect signs of life, Robert Reyes remembered the moment, in September 2010, during a tour of duty in Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated beneath his squad’s armored vehicle, flipping it upside down. Robert was thrown from the Stryker, and despite his injuries, returned several times to help free…