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Three nights after two teammates died, Louis Safran beat around the bush asking Frohardt about faith. Frohardt changed the subject — he didn't have all the answers yet. Two nights later, the building blew up. Safran was killed. Frohardt was blown 30 feet clear by the window's overpressure and survived.
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Between two devastating nights — the Super Bowl Sunday deaths and the IED that would come — Louis Safran approached Frohardt. He beat around the bush, searching, Frohardt says, for answers about why good men like Mike and Nate die while bad men don't. Frohardt knew what Louis was really asking. But he was afraid. He didn't have all the theological answers, and he thought he needed to. He changed the subject. Two nights later, Frohardt was leading his team to a building when he stopped to engage fighters through a window — a split-second tactical decision that saved his life. The building detonated. Safran, who had moved up at the last minute, was crushed under a concrete roof. Others suffered double compound femur fractures, full pelvic fractures, broken limbs. Frohardt was blown 30 feet by the window's overpressure, bounced off a compound wall, and came to with a severe concussion. His regret — not speaking about faith with Safran — became the catalyst for his entire spiritual transformation.
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