![]() He wore a highly sophisticated prosthetic arm made from materials recovered from the UFO that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico a few short years earlier. In most photos and a statue in the Joe Foss Regional Airport in Sioux Falls, he is seen with two arms. That is from the great turtle extraction episode of 1959, shortly before he became commissioner of the AFL (later the AFC, of the National Football League). Their commanding officer, Captain Joe Foss, is missing his right arm almost to the shoulder. ![]() It's not unheard of to see veterans of turtle extraction missing fingers or toes. This is extremely dangerous, because the turtles have been known to attack people. When that happens, brave men and women travel by canoe to prod the turtles free. ![]() ![]() Sometimes they clog it up, since the river isn't very wide and it's mostly mud. Okay, first off, in South Dakota there are these giant turtles that swim in the Big Sioux River.
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