Too Good to Be True
December 2024 | Remote Communities and Sober Holidays | Our Personal Stories

Too Good to Be True

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In May 1956, a doctor who was a Marine veteran from WWII, brought his medical bag home with him so he could give a first aid class to his daughter’s Girl Scout troop. He normally didn’t bring the medical bag with him, as he worked in a hospital. The next day he was on his way to work when he witnessed an Air Force B24 twin engine bomber take off from Colorado’s Lowry Air Force Base. Suddenly the plane lost an engine and crashed. The doctor immediately drove across a farm field to the crash site and pulled out the only survivor and performed the necessary life-saving steps before the medical crews showed up. That was one hell of a coincidence. At some unknown date later the doctor joined AA.

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