thewookie
04-07-09, 10:20 AM
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You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Vietnam</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> . 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 MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.<O:P></O:P>
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You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 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.
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Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
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Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.<O:P></O:P>
He's coming anyway.
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And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
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Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
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And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
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Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Boise</ST1:CITY> , <ST1:STATE w:st="on">ID</ST1:STATE></ST1:PLACE> ......
May God rest his soul.....<O:P></O:P>
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I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"
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You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Vietnam</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> . 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 MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.<O:P></O:P>
<O:P></O:P>
You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns, and you know you're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 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.
<O:P></O:P>
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
<O:P></O:P>
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Medi-Vacs were ordered not to come.<O:P></O:P>
He's coming anyway.
<O:P></O:P>
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
<O:P></O:P>
Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.
<O:P></O:P>
And, he kept coming back.... 13 more times..... And took about 30 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
<O:P></O:P>
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:CITY w:st="on">Boise</ST1:CITY> , <ST1:STATE w:st="on">ID</ST1:STATE></ST1:PLACE> ......
May God rest his soul.....<O:P></O:P>
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I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"
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