RIP to an American Hero

[Taiku]

Michael Jackson dies and it's 24/7 news coverage. A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media has no honor and God is watching

Ed Freeman 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 half 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 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, 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 on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.

THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY. RIP

[tpanther]

I guess being a pop star for 30 years and selling 700 million cds does make news...as it should

Yes, I agree MJ should receive coverage. For about a few minutes. Then this man and his compatriots that die every day by the hundreds or thousands deserve the rest of the air time.

But not a mention is shameful, utterly shameful. IMO every medal of honor winner deserves notice when they pass.

If it wasn't for these peole, people like MJ wouldn't even exist. Not in the way he did, a multi-millionaire squandering a good chunk of his life.

[mad_as_he$$]

Pardon me but it is bad form to post anything about this battle without a ping to Ronnie.

[meyer]

For those to young to know about this or have only seen the movie We were once solders, the following read is by the late Jack P. Smith (Son of the newsman Howard K. Smith) who was a Private that entered the battle on the on the Fourth day (The movie only covered the first two days).

Incredible, chilling piece of writing. I had to read the entire description of the battle that day.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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NEVER FORGET

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The Rest of the ED ‘Too Tall’ FREEMAN Story =

They are still soldiers

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

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[mad_as_he$$]

Hey Ronnie. How are you doing? Don't see you much around here. I will never forget and I will not let others forget.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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The Rest of the JACK SMITH Story =

..A Freeper Vet Goes to the Vietnam Wall..

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1019769/posts

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[ALOHA RONNIE]

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http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm

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[Gator113]

RIP, “Too Tall”, We will not forget.