Laura's Babies
08-08-2005, 06:09 PM
My daughter and law and I are wanting to do something for Eddies Angels, the 6 guys that came to his rescue the day he was on fire... In case any of you missed that amazing story.
When the panel box exploded on Eddie that day, these guys heard the explosion and ran to see what had happened and found Eddie walking down the hall on fire saying "Help me! I am on fire!". Geroge was the first one that got to him and told Eddie to drop and roll. George has just had back surgery and could not bend his back to help but Eddie dropped and rolled as Geroge told him to do, only he rolled into George, knocking him down. The rest of the guys were there by then and beat the fire out on Eddie with their hands, burning them and pulling his burning cloths off of him. Someone else grabbed some clean rags nearby and covered Eddie with the rags and poured water over his burns to cool them down. One of them grabbed a fire extinquisher to put the fire out around them since the building was on fire by then.
When these guys were ordered to leave the building they refused to leave Eddie. Even when the firemen came and ordered then out, they would not leave him, saying "We'll go out when HE goes out!".. These guys had never met Eddie until this happened.
There will be a ceremony to honor these guys and what they did and they will recieve an accomondation for their heroic act from the Commander of the base this happened on. But Regina and I feel like WE should do something too, but we have NO clue what we could do to show the love, apperciation, and admiration to reconize what they did from Eddies family. They gave us Eddie's life so that he can someday be with his family again.
I met all these guys and got to hug them all and the last time I was there, George paid Eddie another visit and he and I got to talk for a rather long time. He has been by often to see how Eddie has been doing and this time he got to see Eddie OUT of bed and out of his room. His wife had even brough Eddie some banana pudding she had made and it was just a wonderful day/visit. After they left Eddie told me "I didn't even know that guy until this happened. Isn't he nice? I hear this upset those guys real bad."
How do you THANK someone who saved your husband/son? What can you do, large or small so that they will know you acknolge and apperciate what they did...
Any ideas?
When the panel box exploded on Eddie that day, these guys heard the explosion and ran to see what had happened and found Eddie walking down the hall on fire saying "Help me! I am on fire!". Geroge was the first one that got to him and told Eddie to drop and roll. George has just had back surgery and could not bend his back to help but Eddie dropped and rolled as Geroge told him to do, only he rolled into George, knocking him down. The rest of the guys were there by then and beat the fire out on Eddie with their hands, burning them and pulling his burning cloths off of him. Someone else grabbed some clean rags nearby and covered Eddie with the rags and poured water over his burns to cool them down. One of them grabbed a fire extinquisher to put the fire out around them since the building was on fire by then.
When these guys were ordered to leave the building they refused to leave Eddie. Even when the firemen came and ordered then out, they would not leave him, saying "We'll go out when HE goes out!".. These guys had never met Eddie until this happened.
There will be a ceremony to honor these guys and what they did and they will recieve an accomondation for their heroic act from the Commander of the base this happened on. But Regina and I feel like WE should do something too, but we have NO clue what we could do to show the love, apperciation, and admiration to reconize what they did from Eddies family. They gave us Eddie's life so that he can someday be with his family again.
I met all these guys and got to hug them all and the last time I was there, George paid Eddie another visit and he and I got to talk for a rather long time. He has been by often to see how Eddie has been doing and this time he got to see Eddie OUT of bed and out of his room. His wife had even brough Eddie some banana pudding she had made and it was just a wonderful day/visit. After they left Eddie told me "I didn't even know that guy until this happened. Isn't he nice? I hear this upset those guys real bad."
How do you THANK someone who saved your husband/son? What can you do, large or small so that they will know you acknolge and apperciate what they did...
Any ideas?