Give the credit to those who deserve it.

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After listening to all the coverage of the death of Michael Jackson last week, I figured this guy deserved a little more "coverage"!!!
Ed Freeman
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 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 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 Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80, in Boise , ID …May God rest his soul.

Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Since the Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves send this to every American you know.
THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.
R I P

[Buzzy]

Here is another. Have no way of knowing if it is legit! HOPE IT IS.


In case you're tired of the adnauseum coverage of MJ. Here is someone who is deserving. The last few sentences says it all....


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> One of the
> "Band of Brothers" soldiers died on June 17,
> 2009.
>
> We're hearing a lot
> today about big splashy memorial services.
>
> I want a nationwide memorial
> service for Darrell "Shifty" Powers.
>
> Shifty volunteered for the airborne
> in WWII and served with Easy Company of
> the 506th Parachute Infantry
> Regiment, part of the 101st Airborne Infantry.
> If you've seen Band of
> Brothers on HBO or the History Channel, you know
> Shifty. His character
> appears in all 10 episodes, and Shifty himself is
> interviewed in several of
> them.
>
> I met Shifty in the Philadelphia airport several years ago.
> I
> didn't know
> who he was at the time. I just saw an elderly gentleman
> having
> trouble
> reading his ticket. I offered to help, assured him that he
> was at the
> right
> gate, and noticed the "Screaming Eagle", the
> symbol of the 101st
> Airborne,
> on his hat.
>
> Making conversation, I asked him if he'd been in
> the 101st Airborne or if
> his son was serving. He said quietly that he had
> been in the 101st. I
> thanked him for his service, then asked him when he
> served, and how many
> jumps he made.
>
> Quietly and humbly, he said "Well,
> I guess I signed up in 1941 or so, and
> was in until sometime in 1945 . . . "
> at which point my heart skipped.
>
> At that point, again, very humbly, he
> said "I made the 5 training jumps at
> Toccoa, and then jumped into Normandy .
> . . . do you know where Normandy
> is?" At this point my heart
> stopped.
>
> I told him yes, I know exactly where Normandy was, and I
> know
> what D-Day
> was. At that point he said "I also made a second jump
> into
> Holland, into
> Arnhem." I was standing with a genuine war hero . . .
> . and
> then I realized
> that it was June, just after the anniversary of D-Day.
>
>
> I asked Shifty if he was on his way back from France, and
> he said "Yes.
> And
> it's real sad because these days so few of the guys are
> left, and those
> that
> are, lots of them can't make the trip." My heart
> was in my throat and
> I
> didn't know what to say.
>
> I helped Shifty get onto the plane and then
> realized he was back in Coach,
> while I was in First Class. I sent the flight
> attendant back to get him and
> said that I wanted to switch seats. When Shifty
> came forward, I got up out
> of the seat and told him I wanted him to have it,
> that I'd take his in
> coach.
>
> He said "No, son, you enjoy that seat.
> Just knowing that there are still
> some who remember what we did and still
> care is enough to make an old man
> very happy." His eyes were filling up as he
> said it. And mine are brimming
> up now as I write this.
>
> Shifty died on
> June 17 after fighting cancer.
>
> There was no parade.
>
> No big event
> in Staples Center.
>
> No wall to wall back to back 24x7 news
> coverage.
>
> No weeping fans on television.
>
> And that's not
> right.
>
> Let's give Shifty his own Memorial Service, online, in
> our own
> quiet way.
> Please forward this email to everyone you know. Especially
> to the
> veterans.
>
> Rest in peace, Shifty.
>
> "A nation without heroes is
> nothing."

[Lisa]

right on! I usually dont agree with the Elizabeth Hasselback (sp) from the view....but she mentioned the same thing about MJ being the number 1 coverage of the troops on July 4th for goodness sake. I did agree with her on that.