As Tom and Katie Vail celebrate their seventh year of marriage and raise three kids together, they always take care to remember someone from Katie's past: her first husband, Dimitri del Castillo, a U.S. Army officer killed in action in Afghanistan in 2011 and a Purple Heart recipient.“I’ve experienced the loss of friends and fellow soldiers many times,” Tom Vail told. “Katie’s need to honor and remember her late husband is not only understandable, but necessary and cathartic for both of us.
Katie and Dimitri del Castillo celebrate their graduation from the United State Military Academy at West Point, New York.She and Dimitri fell in love as cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point. When the Army handed them orders to Afghanistan in late 2010, they married in a quiet courthouse ceremony in Tampa, Florida, while on leave.
“I would get to see my husband for the first time in a month, and we would get to run a race together. I focused my mind on looking forward to the race so that I wouldn't worry about this mission,” she recalled.Courtesy of Katie Vail “I chose the sleek gray casket over the wooden one because I figured he’d think it was cooler,” she said. “I had nothing else to base my decision on.”
The 3 if them are beautiful human beings 🙏