It was an event that changed the world and one that changed the fate of many military families, including the Nicholsons.
“I just remember there was a feeling of, ‘When are they going? Where are they going? What's going to happen?’” his youngest son, Kevin, recalled. “‘But it's our parents that are going to do it.’ I remember being angry that I wasn't old enough to go, to do anything about it.”
Eventually, all of them were marines, and between the three men, they had 10 deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. In fact, while Larry Nicholson led thousands of troops in Iraq and thousands of troops in Afghanistan, he had the opportunity to see both of his sons in action, even commanding Andrew’s battalion.
But “neat” wasn’t exactly how family matriarch Debbie Nicholson would have described it. She’d already known the concern that came with having a spouse stationed in a war zone, but having her children in a war zone, too, weighed on her differently.
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