FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) - Children of American military families who were just youngsters during the 9/11 terror attacks say growing up in wartime has helped shape the adults they're becoming.

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The Associated Press interviewed some of those who grew up with one or both parents deployed and facing dangers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Austin Trosper, the 17-year-old son of an Army sergeant at Fort Stewart, Ga., wants to work with animals after volunteering at a humane shelter while his father was in Iraq.

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, 17-year-old Codi Schneider hopes to become a journalist or filmmaker and share his story as the son of a military bomb disposal expert.

Alexis Werner, a 20-year-old midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland, is following both of her parents into the Navy.