Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway.
“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”
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What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.
“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.
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The two women said the contrast between the incidents was difficult to ignore.
“We were willing to do for this man, this human, what they were not willing to do for Renee Good,” Zemien said.
“It’s important for people to know how ill-prepared they are,” Amundson said. “And how untrained.”
