Behind the story: Discovering the brotherhood of the Navy’s bomb squad

When I first visited Kenton Stacy at the Veterans Affairs hospital in La Jolla, I knew his wife, Lindsey, would be there. I’d been told to expect his mother, too, out from Ohio.

Geoff Shepelew surprised me.

He’s a Navy bomb technician, and as I quickly learned, part of an unbroken chain of support…