You're a 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"
Shame on the American media!
Monday
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I want to be able to share videos of the war, from the soldiers point of view. Most of these MUSIC VIDEOS are produced by the soldiers and their loved ones, and supporters of Victory. Sadly enough, this only gives you a small idea of what they have seen, and been through. I EXPECT every troop to get the respect that they have given to our country! So please as you watch these videos laugh, cry, get mad, be proud, be amazed, but what ever you do BE RESPECTFUL and THANKFUL to these men and women.
My name is Joe and These troops are People like my own father, my grandparents, my brother-inlaw, and many of my friends that have put their life on the line for our freedom, and the freedom of Iraq. This is my way of saying Thank you, what is yours?
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My name is Joe and These troops are People like my own father, my grandparents, my brother-inlaw, and many of my friends that have put their life on the line for our freedom, and the freedom of Iraq. This is my way of saying Thank you, what is yours?
PLEASE NOTE:
NONE OF THESE VIDEOS ARE CREATED BY ME OR DO I TAKE CREDIT FOR THE CREATION OF ANY OF THE VIDEOS ON THIS BLOG. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ATTRIBUTES OF ANY VIDEO JUST DOUBLE CLICK ON THE VIDEO AT ANY TIME AND YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO THEM. I DO TAKE CREDIT FOR THE EXTENSIVE TIME AND RESEARCH IT TAKES TO COLLECT QUALITY VIDEOS AND MAINTAIN THIS BLOG.
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