A Military Mother’s Three Boys Came Home Within Hours from Across the World Thanks to the Red Cross
By Sabrina Benedetti, Red Cross writer “I was just floored and grateful. When you have a loss like that, you realize you don't get moments back. Having my sons there was a gift. That's truly what it felt like, a gift.” On May 24th, 2026, Angela Boyle made a call she never imagined. She told her three sons, stationed at separate military bases, that their grandfather, her father, Scott Mulrenin, had passed away suddenly from a heart attack. Only minutes earlier, when Angela was arriving at her father's hospital, she was prepared to work on a recovery program. Instead, doctors met her with an end-of-life plan. Under a flood of emotions, she followed her resources and called the American Red Cross to notify them of her father’s passing. Within hours, her son Austin, who serves in the Air National Guard at the Pease Air Force Base from Israel, called her to say he was on his way home. Heading back to his home of Eliot, Maine, Austin was followed by his brothers Gavin and ...
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