Tribute To Slain British Bomb Disposal Hero
The men and women that risk their lives in defense of liberty deserve our thanks, those that are wounded or are slain deserve our respect, while their loved ones deserve our deepest, most sincere sympathy and love. I so admire these exceptional human beings.
Brave smiles and heartbroken applause as widow of bomb disposal hero killed in Afghanistan welcomes her husband home.
Staff Sergeant Schmid, 30, of the Royal Logistics Corps, was killed last Saturday when an improvised explosive device he was attempting to defuse detonated near Sangin.
It was his final mission before he returned home for two weeks’ holiday with his wife and five-year- old stepson Laird before returning to Afghanistan.
The cortege bearing the body of her heroic husband passes slowly before her.
With staggering courage and the utmost dignity, Christina Schmid pays an instinctive tribute to the fallen bomb disposal expert - with a solitary round of applause.
Wearing Staff Sergeant Olaf ‘Oz’ Schmid’s medals proudly on her lapel, she smiles in a humbling display of personal fortitude.
Her husband disarmed 64 roadside bombs in only five months. But the 65th exploded, killing him instantly.
