Cpl. Gunnar Zwilling suspected that his days were numbered last week, while he and his band of brothers in the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team prepared for a mission near Wanat, Afghanistan.
"It's gonna be a bloodbath," he told his father, Kurt Zwilling, on the phone in what would be their last conversation.
Kurt Zwilling braced himself for the worst but held out hope that his son would make it home.
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