But not just those of you who deployed, but your brothers, your sisters, your husbands, your wives, your moms, your dads.

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But it is especially difficult for all of you -- the families of nearly 3, 000 innocents who lost their lives -- your mothers and fathers, your husbands and wives, your sons and your daughters.

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Some of you will kiss your husbands or wives goodbye each morning, and send them out the door not knowing what might happen that day.

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Because once the dinner party gets rolling, and all those Gen-X wives settle onto the couch with their white wine, your buddies are going to want to join you in the kitchen, hogging all the fun.

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Husbands and wives, this may make you reconsider joint ownership of any of your property that might be used to spy on you.

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