I'm Eric Singer, Gazette.com, here at Memorial Hospital with our Friday military salute.
A reunion is going on behind me.
A woman who was saved and the man who saved her.
Hello, how are you?
Hello.
Allison, right?
Yeah.
How have you been?
I'm very well, thank you.
I've been wondering what you'll look like.
And then you took my hand and then my...
I don't remember you letting go of it.
And it felt so comforting.
And it's sort of like my grasp of...
I'm glad I was able to...
My life almost, it's going to be okay because this man who I've never met in my life before is holding my hand and saying it's going to be okay.
After a ski morning at Monarch on January 2nd.
See, he brings it back, of course.
I feel very grateful.
A day that Ali Watt and senior airman Elliot Cox will remember forever.
I was thrown into the air and as I landed I somehow sort of twisted in the air and as I hit the ground that was when I heard the noise that no one wants to hear of the bone breaking.
When I looked at my leg it was pointing off in that direction and my foot was actually 180 degrees the wrong way around.
I started yelling and a few people squeed by and I don't think they saw me.
First I was just thinking that someone's screaming for help, this is real, this is not a joke.
You know, no one jokes about things like this.
And I was just thinking from my training that if I see someone in distress I need to be the person to go help them out and not wait on someone else to do it.
I need to take charge because that person might be paying me with their life.
I can't tell if she's in an awkward spot in the snow, but no back support to lean back on.
And I asked if I could help her lean back on me while we wait for the skipper to come help out.
And a flight to Memorial Hospital.
Ali really never saw Elliot.
So let's hope if I get my nose back and ski.
Definitely.
Let's arrange to go out and spend a day on the slopes together.
Sounds good.
Until now.
He was behind her.
Now she knows him.
Even a photo actually would help to be nice to take it out every now and again when I'm feeling down and look at your photo and think this is the man who really helped me.
I think it could give me strength.
Strength from this man who helped her in one of her worst days.
That's why Senior Airman Elliot Cox is the focus of our Friday Military Salute.
Eric Singer, Gazette.com.
It's definitely a highlight of my career that I got a chance to help somebody.
