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From my perspective and Heather's perspective, we already are married. We've built a life together. We've built a home together. She's the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. The way I look at it, the laws just haven't caught up with us yet.
Do you plan on having a family?
That's one Heather and I are going to have to talk about before I can tell you.
You and Heather love to scuba dive. What happened when you were on the island of Bonaire diving on Sept. 11, 2001?
I remember it was an amazing dive. There were a couple of cuttlefish we followed for a ways. We came back up and were getting ready to go to the second dive site and here comes this minivan tearing down the road. I turn to Heather and say that (it) kind of looks like the (secret service) agents. At which point you hear screeching and the van does a U-turn and comes back to us. One of the agents jumps out of it and says something has happened, we've got to go. And that's all he said. I thought something had happened to my dad. You're just so stunned, you don't ask. It's something you never think is going to happen.
So you didn't know for a while if your dad was okay?
We got in the van. I was in a wet suit. They took us back to the hotel and told us planes had flown into the World Trade Center and there'd been an attack on the Pentagon. We turned on the TV as the second tower fell. It was an hour or two to find out that they (her parents) were okay. I talked to my mom first. I talked to my dad about an hour later.
How did it feel to hear their voices?
Relief. Especially talking to my dad. As soon as I talked to my dad, I knew everything was going to be okay. He's just the most even keeled person in the world. He knows where you have to go and he's going to get there. He knows what has to be done.
How did you get back to the U.S.?
No one knew how to get us out of Bonaire. All the flights were shut down and Heather and I had been diving and usually you are not allowed to fly for 24 hours after you've been diving. We stayed there a couple more days and they eventually sent a customs plane for us back to D.C.
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