Barely a month after leaving home, Pfc. Bryan Nicholas Spry?s tour of duty in Iraq was over. “I saw headlights in the driveway, and I walked out,”Spry?s mother, Beverly Fabri, said of that horrible day in February 2004. “I saw two men in uniforms, and I just turned back into the house and shut the door. I looked at my family and said, ?Nick?s dead.? ”
In an instant, Chestertown, where Nick had grown up, was thrown into a state of mourning for a barely 19-year-old soldier who lost his life when the Humvee he was in slipped off a Baghdad bridge and toppled into a watery canal. Spry?s chin strap got caught on the vehicle?s turn signal, and although rescuers managed to bring him out alive, he died 23 hours later.
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