I've heard it called a death letter, but I don't know if that is the actual name.

I don't know if it has an actual name, but I do know what it is.

It is something that soldiers sometimes write when they deploy into harm's way.

Then they put it with their gear or in a foot locker where it will be found or they give

it to a friend to pass on in case they die.

A letter to the family, they won't see again to mothers that gave them life, to fathers

that raised them to wives that they left at home.

The children they miss and in some cases to the children they've never even met.

It's a good buy letter with a title something like, in case I don't come home.

Well, Jesse Gibbons of Springfield, Missouri wrote one of those letters.

He wrote it to his wife Melissa and their son Dakota, nickname Toad, and to their unborn

son Nick name Bean, who would ultimately be named Carson.

And here is what he said in that letter in case he didn't come home.

My family.

I never thought I would be writing a letter like this.

I really don't know where to start.

I've been getting bad feelings though and well, if you're reading this, I am forever

in debt to you Dakota and the Bean.

I searched all my life for a dream and I found it new.

I would like to think that I made a positive difference in your lives.

I will never be able to make up for the bad.

I am so sorry.

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