Staff Sergeant Ryan Knauss was killed in the Kabul Airport massacre by a suicide bomber on August 26, 2021, along with 12 of his fellow service personnel. Knauss graduated from Gibbs High School in Knoxville, Tennessee He was honored today by the naming of a pedestrian bridge, over a dangerous highway, from the high school to the middle school. Ssgt. Knauss, who died trying to keep people safe, is honored by a bridge that will keep people safe.