Specialist James Reinholdt, U.S. Army – Soldiering Through the Mountains and Valleys of a Five-Year Army Career
Sometimes our lives don’t go the way we envisioned. Fortune or adversity can strike at any time, sending us on a course we never imagined or prepared for. Such was the case with Specialist James Reinholdt, who served in the Army from 1978–83. Seventeen months into his dream job in Berchtesgaden, Germany, he was the driver in a fatal traffic accident that took the life of an Army colleague. He has dealt with the effects of the accident ever since. One thing he has never done, though, is give up.