My family forced me into a freezing garage while I was seven months pregnant after my Marine husband died—but by morning, military officers arrived and everything changed.

systems in the country.

Several years later, I was invited to speak at a veterans’ technology conference.

After my presentation, a young Marine approached me.

“I just wanted to thank you,” he said.

“For what?”

He smiled.

“My unit used your system during an emergency extraction last year.”

I froze.

The Marine continued.

“Everyone made it home.”

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