MOH Winner Ed Freeman Dies. The Media Was Too Busy Covering 7-11 Robberies To Air His Story.

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[islander-11]

Thank you for posting this. I’ll be remembering Ed Freeman in my prayers.

[MattinNJ]

Great post

[T-Bird45]

If the telegram reaction scene you refer to is the black woman on the porch that goes into immediate denial, I agree that it is a powerful scene but that could not have been Godboldt’s wife. Willie Godboldt was a Private First Class, the woman in that scene had previously been shown at a meeting of the officers’ wives with the speech about not using the laundromat in town because it barred blacks.

[Dick Bachert]

That’s the scene and you are probably correct in what you say.

I’m trying to run that information down on the net.

I read somewhere that young girl who played the scene had no idea how she would perform it right up until the camera rolled. I don’t know how it could have been any more effectively.

[MindBender26]

I can trace my life back to one moment, one exact moment in time when I became a conservative, and when I knew that I would fight communists in armed combat sometime in my life.

It was in the bathroom of the Calderone Theater in Hempstead, NY in about 1955, crying, after I had just watched DPRK soldiers kill William Holden, Mickey Rooney and Earl Holliman in The Bridges of Toko-Ri.

I discussed this with Rooney in Las Vegas about 4 years ago. He said that he thought it and Boys Town were the two most important movies he ever made. Maybe not the best, but most important.

[Diver Dave]

On a related note, last Veteran's Day, our church's Veteran's group, formed a choir and we sang two numbers during the three weekend services. "Mansions of the Lord" from the movie "We Were Soldiers" was one of the songs.

Ed Freeman was a character in the movie.

Mansions of The Lord

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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Once a soldier ..and young,

They are still soldiers

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/fourms/showthread.php?t=66978

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NEVER FORGET

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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MEL’s -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-

http://www.Freerepblic.com/focus/f-news/1085111/posts

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What our selflessly holy American SOLDIERS were fighting to prevent from happening in Vietnam:

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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NEVER FORGET

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[fatima]

Amen ,Never forget.Here’s a bump.

[BradyLS]

Rest In Peace! MOH bump!

[calex59]

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, Vietnam.... and you are learning that War is Hell. 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.

That would be a guy I went to school with and played basketball and football with, only the huey didn't get to him in time.

God bless Ed Freeman for the men he did get out. Wonderful men, and women, like that in our military and then the frickin' libtards call them butchers and child killers.