Milam Byers

a couple of years after 9-11.

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So they get Bush, the second Bush.

So 03, he gets called up and they actually deploy.

They get in country like first of April.

and his unit is like one of the first like to cross the border from kuwait to iraq um and i don't know there's a lot of so i said goodbye to my brother um april 1st of 2003 and you know when we went into that war

It wasn't like it is today where like soldiers had no ability to call home, to email.

Like there was absolutely nothing.

I mean, this was just.

There's no Starlink.

No, no technology out there at all.

So, you know, we're writing letters that we know he was not going to read for weeks and maybe months, you know, when they finally find where he is, that sort of thing.

So we say goodbye.

And they, you know, and it was kind of a crazy season.

My parents had just moved to Guam, which I didn't even know where that was until they told me they were moving there.

So I said goodbye to my parents in February.

They're off to Guam.

Like to plant a church or they?