KSV News: Short Round 022

A Heroic Event Remembered (Thank you Mike Fishbaugh)

It was in such a bunker that Dr. Feldman received Pfc. Robert Mussari who was brought in with a live 81mm shell embedded in his abdomen. Assisted by a medic and an explosives engineer holding a flashlight, Dr. Feldman proceeded to treat the Marine who was still conscious. Touching the bomb with a metal instrument could have caused detonation so Dr. Feldman used his bare hands to move muscle and tissue away from the bomb and lift it out. He handed it to the engineer to be taken away and detonated while he closed the patient up. For this and other actions he performed in Vietnam, Dr. Feldman won a Silver Star and has been nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Patient and doctor would meet again after the war. Dr. Feldman delivered Robert Mussari’s first child in 1978. (Photo courtesy Edward Feldman, DO)       

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