Milam Byers

I mean, just...

Plus, you know, you're gonna deliver something to your parents that's gonna be devastating.

Yeah, like life has changed forever.

We go to Atlanta, they get through customs and we're just waiting for them and baggage claim.

And I remember calling my sister-in-law in the interim after things had calmed down a little bit.

And I was just like, can't you send somebody?

Like we're in Atlanta.

This is a huge city.

There's gotta be somebody in the army that can show up and meet us at the airport.

And it was like, no.

And so I remember standing in that baggage claim and seeing, you know, we're at war in two different places at that time.

So I saw a uniformed army folks everywhere.

And just hoping, just thinking, God, please let one of them be here for us.

And they would just walk on by and hoping that somebody else would do what I knew I had to do.

And so mom and dad come out, they want to see Ashley's ring.

We'd just gotten engaged, you know, 36 hours ago.

but they immediately know something's wrong.

And I kind of pulled them to an area where there were no people and I had to tell them.

And you know, my dad hit the ground immediately and I think we held mom up, but

something in them felt like they knew what was about to happen they told me later and um you know they knew the news was coming i always knew something was off something was off that morning and my mom my mom has always had like this kind of crazy discernment and she couldn't pinpoint it like she didn't know