>>> Some perspective for you.............RIP Captain Ed Freeman

>>> You're a 19 year old kid. 
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>>>You're  critically wounded and dying in
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>>>It's  November 11, 1967.  
>>>LZ  (landing zone) X-ray.
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>>>Your  unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so   intense from 100 yards
>>>away, that  your CO (commanding officer) has ordered  the MedEvac helicopters to
>>>stop  coming  in.
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>>>You're  lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you know  you're
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>>>Your  family is half way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and  you'll never
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>>>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
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>>>You  look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real  because no
>>>MedEvac markings are on it.
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>>>Captain  Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
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>>>He's  not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call  and decided
>>>he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire  anyway.
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>>>Even  after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's  coming anyway.
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>>>And  he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as  they load 3 of
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>>>Then  he  flies you up and out through the gunfire to the  doctors and nurses
>>>and safety.
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>>>And,  he kept coming  back!! 13 more  times!!
>>>Until  all  the wounded were out. No one knew until the  mission was over that
>>>the Captain had been hit 4 times in  the legs and left arm.
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>>>He  took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not  have made it
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>>>Medal  of  Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman,  United  States   Air Force,
>>>died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise ,  Idaho
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>>>May  God Bless and Rest His Soul.
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>>>I  bet you didn't hear about this hero's  passing,   but we've sure seen a whole
>>>bunch   about  Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering  of congress over
>>>Health Reform.
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>>>Medal of Honor  Winner Captain Ed Freeman
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>>>Shame  on the American media !!!
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