real american Hero

[hardcore97]

taken from a local forum


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:

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.

 

[vjf915]

Major respect for that guy.

 

[1Lowcoupe]

Major respect for that guy.

 

[Hecz]

yes, major respect to him and ii get your point, but the media's on some money s**t.

 

[89SiGUYrex]

thats nuts! rip to a real man!

 

[hooked_on4]

GI Joe is there!


Real Q is how many records did he sell?

Seriously tho, that's about as heroic as you can get.

 

[4bangincivic]

the media's on some money s**t.

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[Destroy]

It's not that the media has no honor, they just don't care.

 

[Tom]

my only anguish is the media praising this child molester!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Wolfy]

No s**t, that's one Soldier that deserves a place among our honored dead. From firsthand experince, it ain't no simple task landing a single-engined (our Hueys are dual-engined) skid into a hot LZ in Vietnam for a casevac, let alone doing it FOURTEEN f**king TIMES.

Rest in peace, brother.

 

[EXSpeedAddict]

He was more of a man than MJ could ever have hoped to be. RIP

 

[House Special]

yes, major respect to him and ii get your point, but the media's on some money s**t.

That's all it is. They don't give a f**k about Michael or Ed. They just want the dollars.

 

[vjf915]

Here is another one that is similar, it was an email going around.

Ed McMahon died last week. He was a great entertainer, but prior to his stage accomplishments he was a distinguished Marine Corps fighter pilot in WWII earning six Air Medals and attaining the rank of Colonel. He was discharged in 1946 and was later promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the CA Air National Guard.

Farrah Fawcett died last week after a long career in Hollywood as an actress. After she was diagnosed with cancer, she became an activist for cancer treatment and devoted her last remaining years encouraging people to seek treatment. She documented her plight on film and used it to encourage others to stay positive and upbeat despite their diagnosis and suffering.

Michael Jackson died last week. He was perhaps one of the greatest singers of modern time. He will also be remembered for his eccentric lifestyle that included sleeping with a chimpanzee, living in a carnival-like atmosphere at Neverland, his fascination with Peter Pan and his numerous masks and costumes. He also admitted to finding pleasure sleeping with young boys and paying out millions of dollars in settlements to the families of these boys despite being acquitted by a court on one allegation of sexual molestation.

QUESTION 1- Which of the above did the House of Representatives declare a moment of silence for? (Hint - It wasn't the first two.)

QUESTION 2- Which of the above's family received a personal note of condolence from President Obama? (Hint - It wasn't the first two.)

 

[Mr. Jollypants]

From firsthand experince, it ain't no simple task landing a single-engined (our Hueys are dual-engined) skid into a hot LZ in Vietnam for a casevac, let alone doing it FOURTEEN f**king TIMES.

You were in 'Nam?!!?

 

[Matt.]

He was more of a man than MJ could ever have hoped to be. RIP

MJ was a man? Learn something every day I guess.

 

[Wolfy]

You were in 'Nam?!!?

Da Nang, motherfucker.

Nah, but it's definitely enough of a pain in the ass to land a helicopter in a non-hot LZ on Okinawa, so I can only imagine what it's like to do what he did.