Tampa Contractor Killed In Afghanistan
Mar 6, 2009 Afghanistan
By KATIE CORONADO | News Channel 8
“I cried, when I got off the phone; I don’t think I’ve ever sobbed like I did at that moment.”
It has been less than a week since 36-year-old Heather Ashby received the news that her partner of 11 years was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
Ashby said Santos Cardona was on a patrol early Saturday morning. There had been many roadside bombs in the past few days, and “they wanted him to go out with his dog. The explosion split the Humvee he was in, and it landed on top of him. He was killed instantly.”
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