| What is correct etiquette when someone hands | | | | what these actors were imitating, I have made |
| you a bloody Ziploc bag containing an ear, | | | | my career. |
| sideburn and the better part of skin from a | | | | |
| neck and jaw? What are the right words to | | | | My name is Reese Boxwell. I have responded to |
| soothe the only survivor of a capsized vessel | | | | at-sea and inland emergencies for two |
| of five? How many people have drowned because | | | | decades. Having been jerked, pulled, bent, |
| they had no way to communicate or signal? | | | | and battered while doing a job that I truly |
| Would I recognize any of the hundreds of | | | | love has caused irreversible physical damage. |
| people I plucked from sewage-laden water and | | | | I now face retirement. I can live with the |
| from rooftops during Hurricane Katrina? Would | | | | chronic pain, but the emotional baggage is |
| they recognize me? | | | | proving harder to cope with. |
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| Leave it to Hollywood to glorify an | | | | As an outlet, I have created a website that I |
| occupation that the majority of the world | | | | hope will save lives. I have made it my |
| knows little or nothing about. Kevin Costner | | | | life's mission to continue to educate the |
| and Ashton Kutcher may have rapt the | | | | public and provide simple "grass roots" |
| imaginations of millions, but there is a side | | | | information and tools needed before, during |
| of being a USCG Helicopter Rescue Swimmer | | | | and after emergencies. People do not have to |
| that even the best actors cannot portray. | | | | die due to lack of preparedness! Log on to |
| Even the most accomplished actor would find | | | | and prepare yourself, your family and your |
| it impossible to muster the emotional | | | | friends. Help those trying to help you. |
| strength needed to face situations and answer | | | | |
| the questions these humble heroes face daily. | | | | Thank you and God Bless. |
| I am keenly aware that this is true, because | | | | |