swap places with ....

“We are just devastated – there are no other words for it.

“We were already in the middle of a nightmare with the search, but that nightmare has doubled."

we would swap places with him in a second (  without a moment's hesitation). I suppose all parents think that

“I don’t know how things are going to be in the future. You think what other parents feel when this happens. You sympathise. But until this happens to you, you don’t know what these people have gone through.

“I suppose we will just have to get strength from somewhere.”