Amen!!!!

. > Subject: FW: Ed Freeman
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:11:27 -0700
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> There may be some of you who don't know who Ed Freeman is. Read the book or
> see the movie, "We Were Soldiers". He was a true hero.
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> Les
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Burns [mailto:jburnsjr@pacbell.net]
> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 3:15 PM
> To: Bettye Burns
> Subject: Ed Freeman
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> May God Bless his family and those like him................
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> Ed Freeman
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> 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 MediVac helicopters to stop coming in.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> He's coming anyway.
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> And he drops it in, and sits there in the
> machine gun fire, as they load 2 or 3 of you on board.
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> 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.
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> Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman,died
> last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his
> soul.....
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> I bet you didn't hear about this hero's
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> passing, but we sure were told a whole
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> bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward
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> beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"
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> Medal of Honor Winner
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> Ed Freeman!
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> Shame on the American Media
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