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Offline W7LPNRICK

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A Hero Dies.....
« on: January 06, 2010, 09:07:47 PM »
You're a   19 year old kid. 
You're   critically wounded and dying in the jungle in   the Ia Drang Valley.     
November   11, 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. 
You   look up to see an unarmed 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   anyway.   Even   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!!   He   took about 30 of you and your buddies out who   would never have gotten out.   Medal of Honor   Recipient, Ed   Freeman, died recently at the   age of 80, in
Boise , Idaho   . May   God Rest His Soul.  I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure   seen a whole bunch   about Michael   Jackson. . . 
Medal   of Honor Winner   Ed   Freeman--Shame   on the American media !!!   :salute
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Offline Ruler2

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 09:11:38 PM »
 :salute

Talk about guts, this is what makes our troops who they are today, character.

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2010, 09:15:39 PM »
 :salute

Offline baine1

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 09:25:15 PM »
The story above is amazing, but it's only half of it. The real facts are even more impressive. :salute

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2010, 09:48:26 PM »
 :salute Thank you.
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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2010, 09:54:20 PM »
 :salute and thanks for the post.

Offline MajWoody

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2010, 09:55:01 PM »
 :salute Ed Freeman
Lets keep the stupid to a minimum.
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Offline OSU

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2010, 09:58:05 PM »
A True American Hero.
 :salute
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Offline MutleyBR

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2010, 09:59:30 PM »
 :salute Ed   Freeman

And anyone who does not let his comrades down...
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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2010, 10:55:30 PM »
<S> Freeman
Put a +1 on your geekness atribute  :aok

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2010, 11:13:28 PM »
 :salute
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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2010, 11:39:43 PM »
:salute

Semper Fi
I have fought a good fight,
I have finished my course,
I have kept the faith.
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Offline Larry

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #12 on: January 07, 2010, 12:07:26 AM »
......


Did you get this is an email or something and just wanted to post it here? Ed Freeman passed away on August 20, 2008.


IIRC this same post with almost the same exact wording has been made numerous times since his passing.
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Offline Bodhi

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Re: A Hero Dies.....
« Reply #13 on: January 07, 2010, 12:14:31 AM »

Did you get this is an email or something and just wanted to post it here? Ed Freeman passed away on August 20, 2008.


IIRC this same post with almost the same exact wording has been made numerous times since his passing.

What's wrong with posting it again?
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