Melissa Givens sits with her two sons, 8-year-old Carson and 14-year-old Dakota, inside her home Sept. 6, in Fountain, Colo. Her husband, Jesse Givens, is the first Fort Carson soldier killed in combat after 9/11. He drowned in Iraq May 1, 2003, as his Abrams battle tank burrowed into the Euphrates River. Jesse Givens enlisted to fight terrorism and protect American families, she said.