This is a wife and child whose Marine husband and father will not be coming home.. ..
Mary Ellen Bancroft, holding her year-old daughter, Bailey Madison Bancroft, stands near the pitcher's mound and listens to a tribute to her late husband before throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the San Francisco Giants' home opener against the San Diego Padres in San Francisco, Friday April 5, 2002. Looking on at left is Giants' starting pitcher Kirk Rueter. Bancroft's late husband, Capt. Matthew W. Bancroft, a pilot in the Marines, was the first Northern California casualty of Operation Enduring Freedom.(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)