Trinity
07-16-2009, 09:17 AM
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.
>
>
>
>
> Medal of Honor Winner
> Ed Freeman!
> Since the media didn't give him the
> coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.
>
>
> THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR
> COUNTRY.
> RIP
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> Medal of Honor Winner
> Ed Freeman!
> Since the media didn't give him the
> coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.
>
>
> THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR
> COUNTRY.
> RIP