Surviving a suicide bomber

Army Times reporter Matthew Cox recounts his experience.

My leg is sore, but I feel pretty lucky.

The car bomb that exploded near our Stryker vehicle left a crater in the road that measured about five feet deep and about nine feet in diameter.

Later that night, I looked at a picture of my wife, Heather holding our new son, Jameson, who was born in December.

Yeah … I felt incredibly lucky.