{"id":56530,"date":"2021-11-10T21:02:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T21:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/11\/10\/kids-of-wounded-veterans-to-get-support-attention-under-new-hidden-helpers-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:00:52","slug":"kids-of-wounded-veterans-to-get-support-attention-under-new-hidden-helpers-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/military-honor\/2021\/11\/10\/kids-of-wounded-veterans-to-get-support-attention-under-new-hidden-helpers-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids of wounded veterans to get support, attention under new \u2018hidden helpers\u2019 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nine-year-old Gabby Rodriguez admitted that speaking in front of a large crowd of military advocates was scary, but not as frightening as watching her dad\u2019s seizures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen my dad has seizures, I know how to use his phone to call for help,\u201d she recalled, speaking through a bedazzled mask as her six-year-old sister, Ava, stood nearby twisting a blanket doll in her hands. \u201cI still have nightmares about the first time he had one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI need to sleep close to my parents on those nights.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jorge Rodriguez, a Marine who served in Iraq, survived two roadside bomb blasts during his deployment but today suffers from traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress disorder, and a host of other injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although his wife, Jessica, is his primary caregiver<\/a>, his two daughters help where they can, even though they don\u2019t fully understand everything that happened to him years before they were born.<\/p>\n\n\n\t