A domestic terrorism attack in Chattanooga 10 years ago took the lives of four Marines and a Navy sailor, leaving many grieving family members.
One of them was eight weeks pregnant.
The child, Wrylin Carson Holmquist, learned last summer at the age of 8 what her mother quietly carried for years: Her father died a hero, shot while protecting fellow Marines — a man Wrylin never got the chance to meet.
“It’s been a challenge,” Jasmine Holmquist said in a phone interview. “She’s very knowledgeable as far as emotions, like she doesn’t want me to be sad, so she tries not to make me sad.”
Wrylin will point to old pictures of her father, her mother said, and ask, ‘Well, what’s this picture’ and … ‘Who is this in that picture?'”