Now, he asks for school supplies, soccer balls and Beanie babies to hand out to the Iraqi children. He is always putting the soldiers or the Iraqi children ahead of himself.

What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is right across the street from the victim's house. You have 6- and 7-year-old kids walking to school. I don't know if I'm going to let my kids walk to school now. When a violent crime occurs, all the schools should be notified.

The next time I contacted him I asked him how the fan arrived and was it working, and he told me the fan had arrived in good shape and, yes, it was working.

The other day, I wrote him and asked 'How's the air conditioning? Are you keeping cool when you're off duty?' and he said 'Not so good'.

Just the guilt of the unborn babies is enough. Also, I have asthma and if I get sick, it becomes double pneumonia. The doctor warned me it's getting serious — either sell the cafe or die early. It's so serious (cigarette smoke) that my help wasn't going to work here anymore.

We have couples that are waiting [for children]; it's not a matter of being short couples and too many babies.