(CNN) -- It was a mother's worst nightmare. On March 31, 2014, at 11 p.m., I received a phone call from my 25-year-old son. "Mom. I got lost, made a wrong turn and ended up at the Mexico border. I've been surrounded by military, and I need you to know in case anything happens to me." On April 1, I received another phone call. "Mom, I've been arrested. Please get me an attorney," Andrew said. It was the most frightening call of my life -- worse than the call from Afghanistan as my son explained, "We have just been hit by an IED."
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Mother of Marine being held in Mexico says this separation is worse than his combat tours
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Jill Tahmooressi says her son expressed fear he would not make it
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He was arrested after crossing into Mexico with several guns in his car
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Jill Tahmooressi is relying on her faith to get her through this
This young man who valiantly fought for the freedom of others, willing to die to combat the evil of oppression and violence in two tours in @placeholder, meritoriously promoted to sergeant on the battlefield in 2012 -- and now he is languishing in a Mexican penitentiary and experiencing captivity for the first time, as a result of one wrong turn.
In @placeholder, he had his Marine Corps brothers who always had his back.