"We're very blessed that he is safe, that he is good, that he is protected," Pixie Rogers said of her brother, Travis Timmerman.
But Timmerman's family said that he, too, had been missing, although they had no clue he was in Syria.
"I'm not sure what his thinking was in that," Rogers said of her brother entering a country in conflict.
Only in recent weeks, Rogers said, after Missouri law enforcement was able to get in contact with U.S. Embassy officials in Hungary did the family learn Timmerman was in Lebanon.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a public awareness bulletin that Timmerman had gone missing from Budapest on May 28.
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