On Thanksgiving, just before they were due at a friend’s house for dinner, he dropped to one knee in their living room and asked her to marry him. Owen moved out of an apartment they called “the shoe box” and moved in with her. “I thought, ‘Who’s that new friend of Ryan’s?’” she said. Nitzsche brought Curtis Owen, a civilian friend from childhood who had recently moved from Illinois to take a job as a science teacher at Tampa Catholic High School. In January 2017, members of the local chapter got together for Tampa’s annual Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Not all Team Red, White & Blue events she attended were for a cause, though. By 2015, she was volunteering at food bank fund-raisers and other charity events with a new friend, Ryan Nitzsche, a former Marine sergeant.
Feeks found a social foothold in Tampa with help from Team Red, White & Blue, a nonprofit group that unites veterans with active service members and their families.
Since his death, she said, “I was the person who, everywhere I went, people felt bad for me.” 16, 2012, her husband of 18 months, the Navy SEAL Patrick Feeks, was killed in a helicopter crash during a firefight with insurgents in Afghanistan. When Emily Feeks, a Navy cryptologist based in San Diego, was transferred to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., in 2013, she viewed the move as a chance at a fresh start.
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