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...much, she signed up for active duty after graduating. Christopher followed her lead, though their parents also opposed his enlistment. Now, with Billie in Baghdad, Wanda, 46, finds herself tensing up every morning at 6, the traditional time that families are notified of military casualties. She and her husband begin and end each day with a prayer that Billie will remain safe. "I can't go every day as the tough guy," says Bill, 46, a printer and former member of the Air Force security police. "We've tried to put it in God's hands...
...what a mother wants to hear on the phone from her son serving in the Army in Iraq: "Well, I got my Purple Heart." Those words, delivered in a morphine slur, gave life to Jocelyn Perge's second worst nightmare about her son Jim Beverly. Perge's ex-husband Charles Beverly felt his stomach drop when he got the same call from Jim, who had suffered shrapnel wounds to his face, hand and knee in the Dec. 10 grenade attack on a humvee. Then Charles experienced a powerful sense of relief. "He was on the phone, talking...
...widow displays no anger over the loss of her husband. "Joining the military is voluntary," Jill says. "He felt lucky to be an American and wanted to be part of making a difference. He died doing what he wanted to be doing." Some days, she acknowledges, "I want to curl up and cry and be miserable." But she adds, "I can't. They need me." They are the three daughters Grace, 2, Paige, 1, and baby Cooper, who arrived Dec. 19. Grace is old enough to know something is amiss. "She still asks about Ben all the time," says Jill...
...months Ben was in Iraq, Jill compiled a trove of letters, e-mails, photos and audiocassettes from her husband, who taped himself reading stories and singing made-up songs for his daughters. "I'm grateful he died the way he did," says Jill of his tour of duty. "If it was a car wreck, we wouldn't have all these mementos. I've got all this to share with his girls...
...Liza, stop it! Stop it!" DAVID GEST, husband of actress Liza Minnelli, describing how he reacted to his wife's alleged drunken and violent attacks on him. He has filed a $10 million civil suit against Minnelli, which she is contesting...