Inured Columbia Soldier Ready To Come Home - Cindy Carter

Dennis and Julie Drier look through photographs of their son, U.S. Army spc., Kevin Drier. Kevin comes home soon to Columbia after serving 11 months in Iraq.

However, his homecoming isn't exactly the way the Driers planned.

Dennis Drier says, "He just said 'I got some very bad news'. He said, 'I got hit... I got hit bad'." Twenty-one year old Kevin made that call to his dad not long after he was injured in combat.

Right now, Kevin is recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the many shrapnel injuries he received after an improvised explosive device detonated near him.

Kevin Drier says, "(It was) Very hot. I could feel an extremely hot burning feeling all over my body where shrapnel went into me."

Kevin says he's fine now but on June 20th, the day of the explosion, everything was pure chaos. "When the initial explosion does go off, it changes everything. It, you know, you go back to the basics to stop the bleeding. Try not to go into shock."

Apparently, the IED was tripped by one of Kevin's comrades while they were trying to get through a fence. Kevin's parents are glad he's a survivor and can't wait for him to come home. Inured Columbia Soldier Ready To Come Home - Cindy Carter