"We were both instructors in Monterey, [Calif.] She just loved getting in the water and used to say that she had a salt water addiction. We took groups on diving trips all over the world, and had just returned from Turks and Caicos [Islands] when September 11 happened. We would have been celebrating our 20th anniversary the next day. I talked to Suzanne about 10 minutes before she got on the plane, and 'I love you' were the last words we said to each other. It is one of the few things that has let me continue on."

-- Frank Jensen, husband

Source: The Washington Post, AP and washingtonpost.com

The profiles in this feature were written in the months following Sept. 11, 2001.