Hey Travis,
Thanks for this one.
On Mar 28, 4:55 am, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Travis
> Subject: And the vile AG Eric Holder said we were a "nation of cowards"!
> Date: Friday, March 27, 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 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 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.
>
> --
> *~@):~{>
>
> hero.jpg
> 21KViewDownload
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