From: Mike Balog [U.A.I.C.- VT.] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Special Receipent List:
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2000 22:30 Hrs. Dst. ET
Subject: Another Reason for Honest Armed Citizens and Amateur Radio
Operators
~ Emergeny Communications Save a Life: A True Story:
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FROM: THE UPI WIRE SERVICE: THE FOLLOWING TRUE STORY:
The U.S. Coast Guard says ham radio operators in Florida,
Pennsylvania and other places played a major roles in getting
help for a Dutch family whose teen-age son was shot and wounded
by pirates off the Honduran coast last week.
The harrowing adventure for the van Tuijls family began March 28.
Their 44-foot sailboat was anchored with two other sailboats. Jacco
van Tuijl and his 13-year-old son, Willem, were returning to their
boat when they were attacked by a group of men in another boat, who
opened fire on their dinghy.
The boy was seriously wounded in the abdomen.
Jacco van Tuijl said he pulled his bleeding son to their sailboat
and used his radio to call for help. Two ham radio operators who are
doctors helped the van Tuijls keep their son alive until they could
rendezvous with a Honduran navy vessel, which had been contacted by
the U.S. Coast Guard. The ham radio operators had called for the
Coast Guard's help.
Ham radio operator Ed Petzolt of Florida worked through the White
House and the office of Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, to get the visa
clearances so the family could fly from Honduras to Dallas for
treatment at Children's Medical Center's trauma center.
Willem's kidneys and spinal cord were damaged by the gunshot,
according to doctors. He has no feeling in his legs but doctors are
hopeful he'll be able to walk again, a hospital spokesman said.
The van Tuijl family had been cruising around the world since 1995
aboard their sailboat.
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Copyright 2000 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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*" Liberal Interllectuals Arguements Against the 2nd Amendment Amount to
Nothing
More Than Intellectual Flatulence." * ~ Mike Balog - [U.A.I.C. - VT.]
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