2026年3月25日 / 美国东部时间上午10:40 / CBS新闻
乔伊·阿莫尔称他的妻子、陆军一级军士长妮可·阿莫尔是“许多人心中的中流砥柱”和“粘合剂”——他表示，这种角色定义了她的一生和服役生涯，而她于本月初伊朗战争期间在科威特遇袭身亡。
“在混乱、黑暗、担忧、恐惧或不确定的时刻，她总能让人们安定下来，”他在接受CBS新闻独家采访时表示，并补充说与妮可并肩服役的士兵们“都对她有同样的评价”。
妮可来自明尼苏达州白熊湖，是3月1日在科威特一次伊朗无人机袭击中丧生的六名陆军预备役士兵之一，而就在前一天，美国和以色列对伊朗发动了大规模军事行动。他们隶属于爱荷华州得梅因的第103 Sustainment Command部队。
乔伊·阿莫尔表示，当他看到有关科威特某后勤部队遇袭爆炸的新闻报道时开始担心。
“当我得知是驻科威特的后勤部队时，我了解那里的局势，知道那里的人已经所剩无几，我知道那是她的部队，”乔伊·阿莫尔说。
他在最后几条发给她的信息中表达了自己的担忧。
“我给她发了条短信：‘我很担心，我很担心。我们收到报告说一个后勤单位有三人伤亡、五人受伤，亲爱的，今天我需要听到你的消息。’”
大约一个半小时后，他得知她已经身亡。她距离回家只有几天时间。
“我无法向你解释这种感觉，我无法解释在得知结果之前的预感，以及之后被告知你早已预料到的事情——而你已经那么长时间没能见到她了，”乔伊·阿莫尔说，“我无法用语言描述，那太痛苦了。”
妮可上周末被安葬在明尼苏达州，而乔伊·阿莫尔从未料到，去年7月她第二次服役出发时，这会是永别。他回忆道，当他们告别时，妻子说：“我很快就会见到你。”
当被问及如何向孩子解释妮可的死亡时，乔伊·阿莫尔说他“一直对他们非常坦诚和透明”。
“你不可能永远向他们隐瞒真相，”他继续说道，“而现实是，你无法保护他们不面对母亲已经离去的事实。所以你必须用不同的方式对待每个孩子。我女儿是一种情况，儿子是另一种情况。”
这对夫妇相识20余年，在弗吉尼亚州尤斯蒂斯堡服役时相识，2015年结婚。
乔伊·阿莫尔2012年退伍后，妮可坚持继续服役。他表示，她的服役“逐渐变成了一种责任感、使命感和自豪感”，也意味着“照顾身边的人”。
如今，乔伊·阿莫尔和他们的孩子也成为了金星家庭（Gold Star families）的一员——即因公殉职的军人直系亲属。
“这是一个能理解我们此刻感受的群体，而且他们至今仍在承受这种痛苦，”他说，“这是一个你会尊敬的家庭群体，我们整个国家都会向他们致敬，但除非亲身经历，否则永远无法真正理解这份沉重。”
乔伊·阿莫尔反复回忆与妮可相处的最后时光，以及两个孩子与母亲告别的最后时刻。
“他们很安心，因为我们以为她是安全的，”他说。
回顾过去固然痛苦，但展望未来同样令人煎熬。不过乔伊·阿莫尔和他们的两个孩子希望以一种特殊的方式纪念妮可——建造一座纪念温室。
“对她来说，那是个让人平静的地方，”乔伊·阿莫尔谈到妮可对园艺的热爱时说，并补充道：“她喜欢看着植物茁壮成长……而它们似乎总有自己的生命力。”
根据其网站信息，“尼基拥抱行动”（Operation Nikki’s Embrace）正在为“花园、温室、社区空间和服务项目”筹集资金，一座纪念温室将以妮可的名字建造。
“核心是这座小小的温室，我将用余生去维护和培育它，”乔伊·阿莫尔说，“我对此无比感激。这将是一种荣誉，一种喜悦，一件美妙的事。”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-husband-of-us-soldier-killed-in-iran-war/
Husband of Nicole Amor, U.S. soldier killed in Kuwait, on what her service meant: “She was the rock for a lot of people”
March 25, 2026 / 10:40 AM EDT / CBS News
Joey Amor says his wife, Army Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, was “the rock” and “the glue” for those around her — a role he says defined her life and service before she was killed earlier this month during the war with Iran.
“In a moment of chaos or darkness or concern or fear or uncertainty, she anchored them,” he told CBS News in an exclusive interview, adding the soldiers who served alongside Nicole “all say the same thing” about her.
Nicole, of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, was one of six Army Reserve soldiers killed in an Iranian drone strike in Kuwait on March 1, the day after the U.S. and Israel launched a massive military operation in Iran. They were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command based in Des Moines, Iowa.
Joey Amor said he became concerned when he saw news reports of an explosion that had struck a sustainment unit in Kuwait.
“When I heard it was a sustainment unit based out of Kuwait, I know enough about what’s going on over there to know there were very few left over there, I knew it was her unit,” Joey Amor said.
He said he shared his concern in his final messages to her.
“I sent her a text and I said, ‘I’m getting worried. I’m getting worried. We’re getting reports of a sustainment unit, three casualties, five injured, I’m gonna need to hear something from you today, my love.’”
About an hour and a half later, he learned she had been killed. She was just days from returning home.
“And I don’t know how to explain that to you, I don’t know how to explain knowing before you know, and then to be told what you already know, after not being able to see your person for that long,” Joey Amor said. “I can’t put that into words. That was painful.”
Nicole was buried in Minnesota last weekend, an ending Joey Amor never expected when she left for her second tour last July. When they said goodbye, his wife had said, “I’ll see you soon,” he recalled.
Asked how he explains Nicole’s death to their children, Joey Amor said he’s “been very honest with them and transparent with them.”
“You can only protect them from the truth for so long,” he continued. “And the reality is, is that there is no protecting them from the truth that their mother is gone. And so you have to handle each one differently. My daughter’s one way, my son’s a different.”
The couple had been part of each other’s lives for more than 20 years. They met while serving at Fort Eustis in Virginia and married in 2015.
When Joey Amor left the military in 2012, Nicole insisted on staying. Her service “grew into a sense of duty and a sense of responsibility, a sense of pride,” he said. It also meant “taking care of the one next to her.”
Now, Joey Amor and their children are also part of the Gold Star families, the immediate family members of service members who have died in the line of duty serving the United States.
“It is a community of people that have felt what we are feeling right now, and that are still feeling this every day,” he said. “And it’s a group of families that you respect and that we all honor as the nation, but we never truly understand the weight unless you’re a part of it.”
Joey Amor keeps replaying the last moments he shared with Nicole, as well as the final moments their two children had with their mother.
“And they were so comfortable because we thought she was safe,” he said.
As painful as it is to look back, it also hurts to look forward. But Joey Amor and their two children hope to grow an unconventional memorial: a special greenhouse in Nicole’s honor.
“It was a calming place for her,” Joey Amor said of Nicole’s love of gardening, adding: “She loved watching what it turned into…and it always took on a life of its own.”
Operation Nikki’s Embrace is raising funds for “gardens, greenhouses, community spaces, and acts of service,” according to its website, and a greenhouse will be built in Nicole’s honor.
“At the core of it is this little greenhouse that I will get to spend the rest of my life maintaining and growing,” Joey Amor said. “And I can’t be more thankful for that. It’s going to be an honor, it’s going to be a joy, it’s going to be wonderful.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/extended-interview-husband-of-us-soldier-killed-in-iran-war/
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