America Honors Military Hero Ed Freeman (RIP)

Raging Debate.com ^ | 7-10-09 | Jason Rines

[iThinkBig]

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 themachine 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.

[SuziQ]

I just requested the follow up book from my library system.

[Kathy in Alaska]

6’4” and originally too tall to be a pilot. Rules were eventually changed and the rest is history.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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FREEDOM =

The Right to say “NO” to Communism

FREEDOM’s Loss =

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education(SLAVE LABOR) Camp

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

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Even General GIAP, the very Architect of a Communist takeover of a then Free South Vietnam long ago,
...finally gets it now:

Vietnamese General takes on the Communist Party

http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=80091

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NEVER FORGET

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[tpanther]

...the unexpected response that flabbergasted me was from a graduate student....”we need to tell this to everyone so that they won't join the army and have to go through that.”

Liberals are like that. Completely clueless. It reminds me a little of Ron Paul. He thinks you just call the police if pirates storm a ship carrying cargo to a country overseas.

Who does Ron Paul think is at the other end of the line?

The U.N.?

Magical superheoprs like batman and spiderman and superman?

Now that this country has more Jay Walkers ala the Jay Leno show than informed citizens, we're pretty well screwed. Clinton damaged the military to the point it would take decades to rebuild and the zerrhoid will finish the job.