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Those memories weren’t as difficult as the night she got the phone call telling her he was in the hospital because he had been hit by a drunk driver. He had been working an accident scene, standing in front of a tow truck with his boot on the front bumper to form a knee rest for the report book he was taking notes with, when the car slammed into the rear of the truck and flung him like a rag doll a hundred feet away into the iceplant. She did her best to forget that and the nagging thought that it could happen again at any time, but the sometimes crippling back issues that would lay him up for days in the years that followed would always remind her.

She also remembered the night when he called to say he would be home late, because he’d had to shoot at a man and the investigators would be talking to him for a while longer. The man eagerly surrendered at the shot, unharmed by the bullet that lodged in the object he was taking cover behind, and the shooting was declared in-policy. They would later joke about the “Great Gunfight at the Mission Trading Post,” but behind her smile was a worried wife who knew that someday her husband might encounter an armed man who didn’t want to surrender so easily.