Milam Byers

And that's the way I've always seen it.

Of this hand in the sky of Iraq with this soldier who's my brother.

And I also knew in that moment that it was instantaneous.

Like it literally was like the moment almost before anyone realized there was an explosion, he had him in his hand.

And that doesn't take away sadness or longing or missing your brother and all the things that come after, but

that was like this supernatural other worldly experience that I'd never had before or since.

Were you trusting that experience or were you kind of?

No, I knew deeply that it was real and still do.

I've not shared that with anybody, but a couple people.

And a few years ago,

we were on a trip and the driver, Tim, was with us.

It was the first time I would meet him.

Another soldier of my brother's had kind of orchestrated this moment.

And

Tim shares the story.

He probably took two hours to tell a story that's 50 seconds long because he's gone through the work and has reprocessed and had to do those things.

And he shows me the Humvee that they were in.

And he says, Hey, actually I have, I can show you, I know on the map exactly where it happened.

And I was like, I want to see it.

He zooms in on his phone on Google maps.