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Her folks, they're good people.
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They got a farm out in Abilene.
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They'd come to Hood, look after her kid
while we went out on exercises.
:43:08
Yeah... Yeah.
:43:12
OK.
:43:13
Thank you, Specialist.
:43:15
Thank you very much, sir.
:43:22
I read somewhere...
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that if a child doesn't see a person die,
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or dead, like in a casket,
:43:30
that the person isn't really dead for them.
:43:34
That'd be nice, wouldn't it?
:43:37
Yes, ma'am.
:43:40
It was, uh... unusual, wasn't it,
:43:44
for Karen to want to be a helicopter pilot?
:43:46
I guess that's my fault.
:43:48
I took her to the fair when she was 11.
:43:51
12- 7th grade.
:43:54
Anyway, there was a helicopter there.
:43:57
Small one with a bubble up front.
:43:59
The fella... the pilot was selling rides.
:44:01
I bought Karen a ticket.
:44:04
It was a short ride.
:44:06
But when she came down...
:44:09
Well, I don't think
she ever came down, actually.
:44:12
She showed up
at the dinner table one day,
:44:17
just after she finished TCU.
:44:20
She's joined the Army.
:44:21
She wants to fly helicopters.
:44:23
She's real stubborn about it, too.
:44:25
That's our Karen, you know, stubborn.
:44:27
So is Anne Marie here.
:44:32
Come here, honey.
:44:33
Excuse me.
:44:41
Uh, the young men,
:44:42
the ones that came to tell us about Karen...
:44:47
they were dressed just like you.
:44:49
Oh, I see.
:44:52
Major Teegarden,
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her commanding officer, he came, too,
when he came back from the Gulf.
:44:58
Brought this photo back for Anne Marie.