Fort Bragg Stories: Army widow finds strength in network of support
Laura Monk was a newlywed when she moved to Fort Bragg with her husband, Spc. Austin Monk, in 2009.He deployed to Iraq shortly after. But while serving overseas, he was diagnosed with leukemia. They spent most of their two-and-a-half year marriage negotiating his illness and cancer treatments.”We had to adjust to a new normal,” Monk recalled.Austin received a bone marrow transplant in May 2011 that seemed to turn things around.”The doctors even said after his […]
