This is Britt and Chris Harris, a young couple from North Carolina who just got married last October.
Chris, a specialist US Army, was serving in Afghanistan when his car got struck by an IED. He was killed alongside Sergeant Jonathon Hunter.
What’s even more tragic is, just a week earlier, Britt had given Chris the news that she was pregnant with their first child. “When I told him, it was the happiest I’d ever seen him,” Britt told ABC News. “He was so excited.”
In the midst of her own grief, Britt’s attention turned to the men who served with Chris; and the knowledge that they lost someone too. “I’m dealing with a lot and grieving but I got to take off work and go to counseling, but they didn’t get to,” she said. “I didn’t want them to be forgotten over there.”
So when Britt learned the gender of her baby, she decided that the men who served with Chris should be the first to know, and she mailed them all confetti poppers so they could have their own gender reveal celebration.
After a brief intro:
And a quick countdown…
The gender was revealed:
“I was crying but smiling because their reaction was so wonderful,” she told ABC News. The baby is due in March 2018. Britt plans to name the baby Christian Michelle, in honor of her father, Christopher Michael.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
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Okay I’m crying.