Milam Byers

Yeah, my dad was like the director of missions for the Pacific Islands out there.

So it was like.

Yeah.

Which is a beautiful place.

It is.

But is in the middle of nowhere.

So.

our family was literally all over the world at that time josh is in iraq they're in guam jared and i are crossing the country in a van or a bus non-stop because bleach is full steam ahead at that point um and so we heard from josh just very periodically like i got a couple letters from him

His wife, Kim, would call us and she would hear from him more often through letters mostly, but she got one or two phone calls.

He kind of commandeered a sat phone from a special forces team and called home for five minutes one time.

But, you know, it was just very...

very distant, didn't really know what was going on, constantly thinking about him.

But Josh was one of those people that like, he did everything he ever set out to do and he did it with excellence.

And so even going into that and it's like, well, you're gonna be fine.

Like whatever happens over there, you're gonna be fine.

So I'll see you when you get back, you know?

And so in July,

of 03. um my wife of 22 years ashley i asked her to marry me on july 21st we get engaged and my parents are for the first time since they moved to guam are coming back to the states dad was speaking at a missions conference in atlanta

And we had a few days off the road.

So they were flying to Atlanta on the next day, the 22nd from Guam.