Veteran Saved Stranger in 1972 During Rapid City Flood—That Stranger Saved 1,000 Lives as a DOCTOR
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Veteran Saved Stranger in 1972 During Rapid City Flood—That Stranger Saved 1,000 Lives as a DOCTOR
June 9, 1972, 10:47 PM. Rapid City, South Dakota. Robert "Mac" McAllister—Vietnam veteran, eight months back from Da Nang—is waist-deep in floodwater, reaching for a drowning kid's hand. The Canyon Lake Dam just failed. 238 billion gallons are tearing through the city.
Around them: debris, bodies, cars tumbling like toys in the current. Mac's in his military jacket, rope tied around his waist, pulling with everything he has. The kid—nineteen years old, hypothermic, barely conscious—has maybe thirty seconds before he goes under. Mac's grandfather's watch, a 1940s Bulova, breaks free from his wrist and sinks into the black water. Gone.
He doesn't care. He drags the kid to higher ground, does CPR, saves his life. By sunrise, 238 are dead. Mac never learns the kid's name, never sees him again. What Mac doesn't know: that stranger will repay the debt a thousand times over.
This is not a short summary. This is the entire story, carefully structured, deeply researched, and narrated in a way that places you inside the era — as if you were reading the headlines the morning after each event happened.
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