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The_Edwards_Notebook-Thankful_To_Be_Rescued010126 · 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 HELO i'm ron Edwards on Today's page from the
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  Speaker 1: Edward's Notebook. Captain O'Grady desperately pulled his ejection lever and
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  Speaker 1: was catapulted into the sky at three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour. Remarkably, he managed to land unscathed, but
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  Speaker 1: in enemy territory. For six incredible days and nights, O'Grady
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  Speaker 1: eluded capture by the Bosnian Serbs, who were relentlessly pursuing him.
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  Speaker 1: O'Grady said his faith in God also sustained him, and
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  Speaker 1: that during his third day on the ground, he experienced
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  Speaker 1: the love of God to such a degree that it
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  Speaker 1: 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 into a fire,
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  Speaker 1: and pulled the American to safety. At a national press
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  Speaker 1: conference 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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