Subject: Ed Freeman - Medal of Honor Recipient
This kind of heroism is truly humbling!!
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965 in 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 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 a 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...... at least 21 more times..... and took about 70 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman died Wednesday, August 20 at 80, in Boise, ID.
None of that is Hollywood fiction!
God Bless Ed Freeman.
Thank GOD for men like Ed Freeman and others like him who put others before themselves.
Conformation of the above is on the following web page:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases ... 716-1.html
Thanks Ed...
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[quote=""SOLID", Bro!"]It's people like this that make this a great country.
A selfless act of bravery is what it takes to be a hero.
Many tried and didn't make it out, My hats off to all the brave men
and woman who have sacrificed all for this country.[/quote]
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A selfless act of bravery is what it takes to be a hero.
Many tried and didn't make it out, My hats off to all the brave men
and woman who have sacrificed all for this country.[/quote]
X2 BROTHER
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WHAT OMOMA WONT DISCUSS!!
HEADLINE CHICAGO: 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
"CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period. In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city, for a total of 372 shootings in the 90 day period.
In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.
According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq during the same time period.
Violent crime reports available on the Chicago Police department's website do not break down shootings by month. However, the latest report shows that the murder in the city is up 18 percent from last year. From January-July, the department reports 291 people were murdered, compared with 246 for the same period in 2007.
Bond said gang-related violence presents the most serious danger to Chicago residents.
"Gang and gun violence continue to be the dominating threat on our streets," Bond said in an e-mail. "Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories."
For total shootings, the South Side's Englewood District, which includes the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods on the city's South Side, fared the worst over the summer. A total of 11 people were shot dead there, and 46 were shot and wounded.
The highest homicide totals came in the Grand Crossing District, which includes the South Shore, Woodlawn, Park Manor and Grand Crossing neighborhoods on the South Side, 13 people were killed and 24 were injured.
Also hit severely by gun violence over the summer was the Harrison District on the city's West Side, where 11 people were shot dead and 25 were shot and wounded. In the Southwest Side's Chicago Lawn District, 12 people were shot and killed and 15 were shot and wounded. In the Ogden District – which includes the Near Southwest Side's Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods – nine people were killed and eight were injured.
The South Chicago District on the Southeast Side saw nine people killed and 18 injured, almost all concentrated in the South Chicago and Avalon Park neighborhoods at the north end of the district.
The Far South Side's Calumet District – including the Roseland, Fernwood and Pullman neighborhoods – saw nine killed and 23 injured."
What is truly sad is that our troops are safer in a war zone - because they retain the means to fight back and to stop assailants - but the people of Chicago, thanks to Yo-Momma and other Illinois politicians - are defenseless victims without any type of firearm to defend the,selves, waiting to be robbed, raped, terrorized and murdered at the hands of criminals who know that their victims ARE defenseless.
Democrates suck at even protecting their own supporters...
I guess "Black on Black Crime" is only a myth....
HEADLINE CHICAGO: 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer
"CHICAGO (CBS) ― An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period. In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city, for a total of 372 shootings in the 90 day period.
In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.
According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq during the same time period.
Violent crime reports available on the Chicago Police department's website do not break down shootings by month. However, the latest report shows that the murder in the city is up 18 percent from last year. From January-July, the department reports 291 people were murdered, compared with 246 for the same period in 2007.
Bond said gang-related violence presents the most serious danger to Chicago residents.
"Gang and gun violence continue to be the dominating threat on our streets," Bond said in an e-mail. "Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories."
For total shootings, the South Side's Englewood District, which includes the Englewood and West Englewood neighborhoods on the city's South Side, fared the worst over the summer. A total of 11 people were shot dead there, and 46 were shot and wounded.
The highest homicide totals came in the Grand Crossing District, which includes the South Shore, Woodlawn, Park Manor and Grand Crossing neighborhoods on the South Side, 13 people were killed and 24 were injured.
Also hit severely by gun violence over the summer was the Harrison District on the city's West Side, where 11 people were shot dead and 25 were shot and wounded. In the Southwest Side's Chicago Lawn District, 12 people were shot and killed and 15 were shot and wounded. In the Ogden District – which includes the Near Southwest Side's Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods – nine people were killed and eight were injured.
The South Chicago District on the Southeast Side saw nine people killed and 18 injured, almost all concentrated in the South Chicago and Avalon Park neighborhoods at the north end of the district.
The Far South Side's Calumet District – including the Roseland, Fernwood and Pullman neighborhoods – saw nine killed and 23 injured."
What is truly sad is that our troops are safer in a war zone - because they retain the means to fight back and to stop assailants - but the people of Chicago, thanks to Yo-Momma and other Illinois politicians - are defenseless victims without any type of firearm to defend the,selves, waiting to be robbed, raped, terrorized and murdered at the hands of criminals who know that their victims ARE defenseless.
Democrates suck at even protecting their own supporters...
I guess "Black on Black Crime" is only a myth....
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If you notice they ( the writer ) keeps calling it GUN violence. It's NOT
gun violence, it is flat out gang violence. The gun is just the tool in
witch the criminal has chosen to use. Start treating these gang as
terrorists because thats what they are. Lets get some Texas law here
and start killing them back.
"Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories."
I just feel sorry for the 20% of the innocent people that happen to get in the way.
gun violence, it is flat out gang violence. The gun is just the tool in
witch the criminal has chosen to use. Start treating these gang as
terrorists because thats what they are. Lets get some Texas law here
and start killing them back.
"Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories."
I just feel sorry for the 20% of the innocent people that happen to get in the way.
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My Dad is a Vietnam Vet, and reading stories like the one above make me wish I were a better person. The other day, one of the local VFW posts had a raffle for a Victory motorcycle, anyway when my wife and I approached them the first thing we said( it's the first thing we say to any vet) was thanks. It got pretty emotional to them right away and to me after they told me that no one had said that to them since they had been there. Pretty sad. I think the people of this country completly take for granted the freedoms we have and the sacrafices made by our men and women in the service. My best friend that I grew up with just joined the Army. He's 36 years old! He told me he was sick of not being able to help, so he joined up, pretty f-ing cool. If you know a service man or women shake their hand or give um a hug and tell um Thanks!
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