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“My job is to take care of those boys. And I'm going to do it, and I want to be able to get them to the hospital as quickly as possible…”

a quote by WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War veteran Spurgeon Neel who pioneered aeromedical evacuation and who was born on September 24, 1919 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain in the US

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