UK – Daily Mail, January 19, 2025
Anna Corbett can’t remember how she broke the news to her three children in August 2022 that she didn’t know if their father was coming home.
Her husband, Ryan, texted her early one morning from Afghanistan, where he’d been doing business for years and where the Corbetts had lived as a family for more than a decade until the US withdrawal and re-emergence of the Taliban in 2021.
Ryan told Anna, who stayed back with the children at the new family base in western New York, that he was being questioned by Afghan police.
The message left her on ‘pins and needles’ for hours, she told DailyMail.com. She hoped Ryan’s predicament would turn out to be something minor.
But later that afternoon, she realized she had to tell her kids something was wrong.
Two-and-a-half years later, she still has no recollection of what happened and how her children reacted to news that their father faced a very bleak future.
