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The_Edwards_Notebook-Thankful_To_Be_Rescue070226 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: On June second, nineteen ninety five, US Air Force Captain
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  Speaker 1: Scott O'Grady was patrolling the designated no fly zone over
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  Speaker 1: war torn Bosnia when at twenty seven thousand feet his
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  Speaker 1: F sixteen fighter were struck by a surface to air
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  Speaker 1: missile hel im or Ron Edwards on Today's page from
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  Speaker 1: the Edward's Notebook. Captain O'Grady desperately pulled his ejection lever
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  Speaker 1: and was catapulted into the sky at three hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty miles per hour. Remarkably, he managed to land unscathed,
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  Speaker 1: but in enemy territory. For six incredible days and nights,
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  Speaker 1: O'Grady eluded capture by the Bosnian Serbs, who were relentlessly
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  Speaker 1: pursuing him. O'Grady said his faith in God also sustained him,
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  Speaker 1: and that during his third day on the ground, he
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  Speaker 1: experienced the love of God to such a degree that
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  Speaker 1: it took away his fear of death. On the sixth day,
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  Speaker 1: in a daring daylight rescue, an elite team of US
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  Speaker 1: Marines moved in with a chopper, dodged inomy fire, and
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  Speaker 1: pulled the American to safety. At a national press conference
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  Speaker 1: following his triumphant return, to the United States, O'Grady said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: if it were not for my love for God and
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  Speaker 1: his love for me, I would not be here right now.
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  Speaker 1: When I think about our republic, she too could benefit
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  Speaker 1: from being rescued from the diabolical plots, plans, and tricks
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  Speaker 1: of those held bent on her demise. I'm run Edwards.
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