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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nU.S. Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amo.Credit : <\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. Army Reserve<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, March 4, Joey Amor, Nicole\u2019s spouse, recalled that she had been working long shifts and had tripped and fallen the previous night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe just never responded in the morning,\u201d Joey told AP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They died in Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, during an \u201cunmanned aircraft system attack,\u201d officials wrote, noting that the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe was almost home,\u201d Joey said. \u201cYou don\u2019t go to Kuwait thinking something\u2019s going to happen, and for her to be one of the first \u2014 it hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Derek Hoff, Nicole\u2019s brother, told The New York Times<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe knew what she signed up for, and she did it because she had a job and a duty,\u201d Hoff said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hoff noted that his sister\u2019s 18-year-old son was graduating high school, and she also didn\u2019t want to lose more time with her 9-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe just missed them,\u201d Hoff told the newspaper of Nicole, who joined the National Guard in 2005, then went to the Army Reserve the following year. \u201cIt was a yearning for her kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joey Amor said that his wife transferred off-base to a building that had no defenses, telling AP that U.S. forces were worried the base could be attacked and believed it was safer to be in smaller groups and in different places.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nicole was remembered by family as an avid gardener who made salsa from peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son, AP reported. She also spent time bicycling and rollerblading with her daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota offered condolences to Nicole\u2019s family following the news of her death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJohn and I join with people across our state and our country in mourning Sgt. First Class Nicole Amor of White Bear Lake,\u201d Klobuchar said in a statement issued on Tuesday, March 3. \u201cOur hearts are with her family, loved ones, and all those in our armed forces. Sgt. Amor made the ultimate sacrifice serving our nation, and we are forever indebted to her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz also paid respects to Nicole in an X post on Tuesday, writing, \u201cMinnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cShe answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation,\u201d he continued. \u201cMinnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00b7 05\/03\/2026 \u00b7 comments off Soldier and Mom of 2 Was Days Away from Coming Home and Spoke with Husband Hours Before Being Killed in Iran War \u201cShe was almost home,\u201d said the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4164,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotfreshnewss.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"H\u00ecnh](\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/HCkVVf9XcAIx6GZ?format=jpg&name=small\")