Her Love Still Carries Us: Gail’s Love, Unbroken: Our Journey Beyond the Brussels Attack

On a quiet morning in March 2016, a single sound, click, shattered my family’s life forever. When a terrorist attack at Brussels Airport took the life of my wife, Gail Martinez, and nearly killed our four children and me, survival was only the beginning. What followed was a journey shaped not by answers, but by endurance, through unimaginable loss, physical devastation, and the long, uneven road of grief. Told through my eyes as a husband and father struggling to carry what remains, Her Love Still Carries Us is not a story of heroism or closure. It is a testimony to the enduring power of a mother’s love, one that did not end with death, but lives on through the children she raised and the faith she anchored. Through faith restored, a village that stepped in, and four children who became their mother’s living legacy, this memoir explores what it means to keep going when the person who held everything together is gone. This is a story of love, loss, faith, and resilience, and the responsibility of carrying that love forward through the darkness.