chg
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| | 07/21/09 at 05:23 PM | Reply with quote | #1 |
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A friend sent me this, it's worth reading.
Michael Jackson dies and it's 24/7 news coverage. A real American
hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media has no honor and
God is watching.
The Story:
You're a 19-year-old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle
in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, Vietnam . Your infantry unit
is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards
away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the MEDEVAC helicopters
to stop coming in.
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're
not getting out. Your family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away
and you'll never see them again. As the world starts to fade in and out, you
know this is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a
helicopter and you look up to see an unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real
because no MEDEVAC markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not MEDEVAC, so it's not his job, but
he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the MEDEVAC's
were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire as they load 2 or
3 of you on board.
Then he flies you up and out, through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses.
And he kept coming back, 13 more times, and took about 30 of you and your
buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at
the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.
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ChrisO
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| | 07/21/09 at 05:59 PM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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Thank You CHG for posting this story of a true HERO in every sense. No, unfortunately, I don't ever remember reading about his heroic rescues in any paper or history lesson in school. We were to busy learning about civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King JR, and that the slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy had a poor younger brother named Ted Kennedy that was in a bad accident that killed his secretary by driving his car over a bridge and leaving her under water not trying to save her, & not even reporting the accident.
But GOD Knew !
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SafarisAfrica
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| | 07/23/09 at 03:43 PM | Reply with quote | #3 |
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This is becoming a sicker world by the day. I only heard about Ed Freeman from emails being circulated. I don't know what kind of wake up call its going to take for people to start using some common sense.
Len
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Jamesfromjersey
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| | 08/02/09 at 04:37 AM | Reply with quote | #4 |
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Amen.....
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