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Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:26 PM
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Subject: Ed Freeman
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