For two days in October of 1987, not just a community, not just a state, not just a nation, but the entire world was watching with bated breath the drama of a little girl named Jessica McClure. We all learned all over again just how valuable the life of one person can be, as we watched the monumental rescue efforts that were focused on this eighteen-month-old little girl who had dropped twenty-two feet through an eight-inch opening in an oil pipeline at a daycare center. For fifty-eight solid hours over two and a half days, drilling experts, highway construction equipment, pneumatic drills, special air vents, high pressure hydraulic drills, an unbelievable herculean effort were expended to rescue this one little girl. When she was finally pulled from that hole, an entire world cheered.
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