No tickets to his funeral!

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..!!
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 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 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've sure seen a whole bunch
about some freakish white-gloved sexual pervert's passing..!!

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no but thanks for sharing that info!!! god bless our armed forces for everything they have EVER given to this great country...and to the ones that will give and dont even know it yet....without them where would we be? :Thanks: to all that have served my admiration and respect follow you :77:

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Thanks to all!!!!!!

Thank God for men like Ed Freeman. A human being worthy of life, quite unlike 90% of the remaining population worldwide. I have to wonder how older Veterans feel about the way the younger generations of politicians (and voters) and breeders have turned this country into a sewer. Did he fly in 14 times to protect your right to suck one or recieve a free Government check, or free health care, i doubt it. :128:

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Amen Brother!

Working at a prison I have decided we should have a (( Live moving target day)) at least once a month. I bet my shooting skills would be kept sharp! That would reduce prison population and put a damper on crime!

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[quote="Mikebike4"]Thank God for men like Ed Freeman. A human being worthy of life, quite unlike 90% of the remaining population worldwide. I have to wonder how older Veterans feel about the way the younger generations of politicians (and voters) and breeders have turned this country into a sewer. Did he fly in 14 times to protect your right to suck one or recieve a free Government check, or free health care, i doubt it. :128:[/quote]

:yea that: That has to be the best statement of the year!

Its really sad what the news thinks is inportant, But you know they will only report what the majority of their viewers want to see so I guess you can't find them totally at fault, but it is sad none the less! :142: