“I’m sick.” Those words marked the beginning of a 10-day ordeal for 40-year-old Mark Dickey. Suspended on a rope halfway up a 300-foot vertical face deep within Morca Cave, Dickey felt sudden and severe abdominal pain. He and fellow researchers were mapping passages in the 4,186-foot deep cave … [Read more...] about Rescue at Morca Cave
The rescue
“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). On April 11, 1966, two helicopters lifted off to extract Army casualties pinned down in a battle near Saigon. Aboard “Pedro 73,” one of the Huskie choppers, rescue specialist William Pitsenbarger, 21, … [Read more...] about The rescue