My wife died seven and a half years ago, and I felt very sad. It was the     1 time in my life. I once wanted to kill myself, but I didn’t. I went on to work as a    2      in Kilauea, Hawaii. My kids had gone to live with my mother, and I was    3     .

Two months later, on a family trip, we    4    the TV and saw the second plane crash into the World Trade Center. I said to my kids, “I’m going to Afghanistan. ” And I    5    .