Live, from Alabama: It’s a Marine’s First Child

Marine Cpl. Terrence “Terry” Lambert will have to wait until his return to Alabama in the fall to hold his first child, but a satellite link in Iraq let him witness her birth on Father’s Day.

Lambert, 21, watched at Alisade Air Base, near the Syrian border in Iraq, while his wife, Jodilynn, gave birth at Jacksonville Medical Center. Jodilynn Lambert, 20, could see her husband on a 50-inch television screen as they talked and waited until their daughter, Katherine Annalee Lambert, arrived. “This is the best Father’s Day present he can ask for,” Jodilynn Lambert said.