there is no fairness about these >> and it's that. >> yeah. things, they just are. >> saturday morning, more than 24 hours since they had any communication from their son -- zach brannon turned 23 in 2010. >> by 8:30, we still hadn't heard anything. we still woke up to even more horrible images and then had time to think about the death tolls and all that. i just picked up a degree in it was just compounding and history from a college in indiana, no idea what to do compounding and compounding. next. and then he saw an offer for a >> and then about the moment all job in japan, a two-year stint seemed lost, another e-mail teaching english to elementary arrived, not from zach. school kids, no japanese it was from kenji, the volunteer language skills required. >> why japan of all places? mentor in japan, just a few >> i don't think there's any words, and they meant rhyme or reason to it. everything. i think it was just offered to me and i jumped on it. >> bran nan son survived. >> the town they sent him to in japan called kuji, a long way from his hometown of nashville, nashville, indiana. basically that was all it said. >> what was that like? on sundays he skyped with his >> of course we wanted more details. parents john and terry. >> it was a relief. >> zach was alive. john is a musician and terry a all they needed to know for now. school guidance counselor. but georgia, still no word. >> how did he seem to be doing? while his parents worried about >> it was rough at first, the him at home, zach was riding out language thing was the big the chaos in kuji. thing. >> you were a stranger in a