Lucky

By lex, on December 15th, 2007

So, you’re a 14-year old kid from Illinois on vacation on a Mexico-bound cruise liner in December. Lucky, yah?

Until your appendix bursts at sea, and then, you know: Not so much.

Except that there’s a US Navy aircraft carrier not so very far away, and it’s got a modern medical center tucked away inside. They send a helicopter to get you, and after you’re met on the flight deck by the ship’s senior medical officer you’re brought below in a weapons elevator, down to medical. Where the medical staff successfully conducts an emergency appendectomy.

USS Ronald Reagan Rescue At Sea

Lucky.

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"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

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