"The absolute worst time of my life," Cheney called it. "[Watkins] actually cut short his trip to Texas to come be with us. He caught the next available flight out and was here the next morning . . . He came right to my house, up in the Northeast. He wanted to go see the families of Bob and Dan. He also went to Temple [Hospital] to see Patrick Nally. He wore his uniform, from West Kelowna, British Columbia, for the funerals, he stood honor guard at the caskets . . . He pretty much never left my side, or our sides."