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Shame on the American Media

Uploaded on April 24, 2009

You're an 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 Medi-Vac 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, and 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, 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 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 sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend" Shame on the American Media.

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from texasmcintyre wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Actual Day of passing was 20th of August 2008.

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from Big O wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

The world is a sadder place with his passing. God bless and keep him, until we all get to hunt together again.

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from 2Poppa wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing texasmcintyre, he was a hero few people knew.

Here is a little more info ...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

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from jfose140 wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Fortunately men like him still exist and the world is a better place because of it. It's unfortunate however that the media exposes what the people most eagerly crave. Until the masses want to hear stories of heroism over celebrity scandals, this will be the way.

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from buckhunter wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

I believe this was made into a movie "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson. Very good story and yes, Ed Freeman is a hero.

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from silsbyj wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

RIP Ed. Happy Hunting in that big mountain range in the sky.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Garryowen! to all you 7th Cav Regt and 1st Cav Div vets from an old "Sky Soldier".

WMH

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from Hogman7 wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Thank God we had a men like him serving this great nation, my heart goes out to his family.

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from peter wrote 3 years 3 weeks ago

i here you. but those americans find your story scary and depressing and it talks about a war they dont agree with so they talk about a baby rich ass

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from texasmcintyre wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Actual Day of passing was 20th of August 2008.

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from 2Poppa wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing texasmcintyre, he was a hero few people knew.

Here is a little more info ...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

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from buckhunter wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

I believe this was made into a movie "We Were Soldiers" with Mel Gibson. Very good story and yes, Ed Freeman is a hero.

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from Big O wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

The world is a sadder place with his passing. God bless and keep him, until we all get to hunt together again.

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from jfose140 wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Fortunately men like him still exist and the world is a better place because of it. It's unfortunate however that the media exposes what the people most eagerly crave. Until the masses want to hear stories of heroism over celebrity scandals, this will be the way.

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from silsbyj wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

RIP Ed. Happy Hunting in that big mountain range in the sky.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Garryowen! to all you 7th Cav Regt and 1st Cav Div vets from an old "Sky Soldier".

WMH

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from Hogman7 wrote 3 years 4 weeks ago

Thank God we had a men like him serving this great nation, my heart goes out to his family.

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from peter wrote 3 years 3 weeks ago

i here you. but those americans find your story scary and depressing and it talks about a war they dont agree with so they talk about a baby rich ass

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