Author Topic: Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!  (Read 324 times)

Offline Dadsguns

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Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!
« on: April 14, 2009, 05:13:01 PM »
Copied this from an email I received...... Shame  on the American Media
 


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 MediVac 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 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.
    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.
    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.
    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 last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....

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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Offline JunkyII

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Re: Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2009, 05:19:12 PM »
 :salute RIP to ed freeman and god be with his family and friends
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« Last Edit: April 14, 2009, 05:32:14 PM by Stoney »
"Can we be incorrect at times, absolutely, but I do believe 15 years of experience does deserve a little more credence and respect than you have given from your very first post."

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Offline AWwrgwy

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Re: Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!
« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2009, 05:50:26 PM »
So, in order to "scold" the media for not reporting something today that they did report when it actually happened, someone is using the memory of a national hero for their own agenda by circulating e-mails.

That's noble.

 :salute Ed Freeman.
May he rest in peace.



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Re: Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2009, 10:36:03 PM »
 :salute
It is I, Ens. Pulver! And I have just thrown your palm tree overboard!
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