May 4, 2018, started like any other; airport workers at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport got ready for a long day of getting travelers to where they needed to go. In the afternoon, airline staff at a gate noticed something odd: a soldier, in a combat uniform, sitting and staring intently at his phone for a long time.
At first, they let him be, as he wasn’t bothering anyone. However, when he started openly crying, they knew something was wrong. Furthermore, his flight needed to take off…