A 20-year-old Army veteran from Iowa married his girlfriend five hours being dying from liver cancer.
Tristin Laue, of Waverly, proposed to his then-girlfriend Tianna on Easter and married her in his family’s backyard less than a week later, according to KWWL.
The April 27 marriage fulfilled Tristin’s last wish.
His wife detailed the strong connection she shared with her late-husband.
“He’s the love of my life,” she told the station. “And even like talking to my mom and everything, she said some people don’t get what you two had in the amount of time, like they’ll be together for years and still not have the same connection that you guys did.”
Tristin enlisted in the United States Army in July 2016, but was medically discharged in April 2018, the station said.
From there he attended the University of Northern Iowa for a year.
A GoFundMe page has been established to help raise money for his family and a memorial bench honoring him.
As of early Thursday, $3,600 had been raised through 84 donations.