"The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself".
Great clip, interestingly, isn't that Betty White that was sitting next to Ed at the end of the show? She is in her 90s now and still going strong.
It's not so much that I liked his story, but that he was so calm and unemotional while relating his nightmare to me. I also was having my own issues trying to concentrate on what I was doing while listening to him.
I served as an FMF corpsman back then, placed several marines on to helicopters, always happy to see helicopters. I have spent my professional life as a registered nurse and I have many stories that I could tell that relate to the service but one sticks out in regards to helicopters. I specialize in interventional radiology, where we do things on the inside of people by accessing the major arteries and snaking catheters around to do things like opening arteries or plugging arteries to stop bleeding. When we take the catheter out there is a small hole in the artery that could cause bleeding if pressure is not held at the site for about 15 minutes. One day I went over to the trauma unit to take a catheter out of a patient who we worked on the day before, he had been in a car accident. He was an older fellow and very happy to have the catheter out. I removed the catheter and was holding pressure and he began telling me a story about being on a hill in Korea and being overrun by the Chinese. I was silent just listening to him talk about being wounded and then hearing the Chinese shooting the wounded. He said the next thing he heard was someone shouting that "this one is still alive" and then he said that was the last time he was on a helicopter until the accident he had the day before when he was medevaced.