“SHE WAS ONLY HOURS FROM COMING HOME.” — HUSBAND REVEALS THE LAST TEXT HIS WIFE SENT BEFORE HER FINAL MISSION As family and friends prepare to bring Nicole M. Amor home to Minnesota, heartbreaking details are emerging about the final hours before the 39-year-old U.S. Army Reserve soldier was killed during the escalating conflict involving Iran. Just days away from returning to her husband and two children, she had been exchanging ordinary messages about home and family shortly before the attack. Her husband later shared that nothing about the conversation seemed unusual at first — until her final message mentioned something she planned to do before the night ended. The tone, he said, suddenly felt different, enough to make him pause while staring at the screen. Not long after that message, the conversation stopped. Since then, he has shared only part of what she wrote, choosing to keep the most personal line private — the final words she sent before everything changed.

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Soldier and Mom of 2 Was Days Away from Coming Home and Spoke with Husband Hours Before Being Killed in Iran War

“She was almost home,” said the husband of U.S. Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, who died on March 1

The husband of U.S. Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, a 39-year-old Army Reserve soldier and mother of two who was killed in the Iran War earlier this week, remembered communicating with his wife just two hours before her death.

In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, March 4, Joey Amor, Nicole’s spouse, recalled that she had been working long shifts and had tripped and fallen the previous night.

“She just never responded in the morning,” Joey told AP.

Nicole Amor was one of four of the six U.S. service members killed in a drone strike on Sunday, March 1, during the war with Iran, the Pentagon said. The others were Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35, Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, and Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20. The identities of the additional two fallen service members have yet been confirmed.

They died in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, during an “unmanned aircraft system attack,” officials wrote, noting that the incident remains under investigation.

Nicole hailed from White Bear Lake, Minn., the Pentagon said. Joey Amor told AP that his wife had been just days away from returning home before the incident.

“She was almost home,” Joey said. “You don’t go to Kuwait thinking something’s going to happen, and for her to be one of the first — it hurts.”

Derek Hoff, Nicole’s brother, told The New York Times that his sister had spent 20 years in the military, and that her recent deployment in Kuwait was probably going to be her final one.

“She knew what she signed up for, and she did it because she had a job and a duty,” Hoff said.