Families of Afghanistan troops grieve, reflect on past 2 decades

Families of Afghanistan troops grieve, reflect on past 2 decades. Her father's sacrifice is something Kylie Willis carries with her every day.

Kylie Willis says she remembers when her father told her that he wanted to enlist in the Army. She was 9 at the time, and said she wanted to tell him no. "I think I just heard something in his voice, even at 9 years old, that made me know that this was important to him. So I said, 'OK,'" Willis told ABC News, sitting outside her home in Martinsburg, West Virginia. "And, you know, seven, eight years later, we lost him because of that decision. And I struggled with that for a long time," she added, pausing to take a deep breath. Her father, Staff Sgt. Kirk Owen, was killed in August 2011, one month into his Afghanistan tour by a roadside bomb. According to Willis, Owen took the front seat of the car because he considered it the most dangerous place to be and didn't want another soldier to ride in that position.