November 8, 2018
New York (CNN)It was four days before Christmas, and Sgt. Joseph Lemm's family awaited his call from Afghanistan, which would certainly brighten the holidays for his wife and two children. But the call never came.
A suicide bomber drove his motorbike into Lemm's convoy as it patrolled a village near Bagram Airfield.
Lemm and five other service members in his convoy died in the attack.
Lemm was 45.
"He was just everything for our family. He was always my rock," Christine DeGuisto said, wearing her husband's police badge and speaking from his desk in the Bronx. What used to be covered with papers and reports is now a makeshift memorial with photos, a rosary and newspaper headlines.
"I just miss him."