Families of Afghanistan troops grieve, reflect on past 2 decades.
Twenty years ago, 3,000 people went to work on a cloudless morning and never returned home.Kylie Willis says she remembers when her father told her that he wanted to enlist in the Army. She was 9 at the time, and said she wanted to tell him no.
That sacrifice is something Willis carries with her every day. Now, at 26 years old and expecting her first child, she said there's not a day that goes by that she doesn't think about what her family lost. For the past decade, she searched for a way to honor him and continue his legacy of service that she said he didn't get to finish.Willis eventually joined Children of Fallen Patriots, a Washington, D.C.
"You have these thoughts of when are they going to come back," said Montjoy."[You] want to talk to them, [you] want to hug them." Life changed quickly for Lee's family. Without family close by, they moved back to Northern California where Lee's mom was from. And while it was great to have the family support, Lee said that it effectively cut them off from the military community, which made it hard to relate to the new kids in his class.
Around that time he was promoted, he received an email from TAPS looking for mentors, and said he took it as a sign.At his first event as a mentor, he said the organizers brought all the mentors into one big room.
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