DANVILLE, Ind. — Last summer, a missed phone call from her Marine husband training for deployment in Iraq left Monica Cripe in tears.
To her rescue came daughter Tessa, blanket and pacifier in hand, to comfort her mother.
Never again, Cripe thought to herself, would she break down in front of her children, even though her husband, David, would be driving convoys through the hot sands of Anbar province…
