Shame On The Media..!

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You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.

It's November 11, 1967.

LZ (landing zone) X-ray.

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 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 a helicopter.
You look up to see a Huey coming in. But ... It doesn't seem real because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.

Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you..

He's not Medi-Vac 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.

Even 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 3 of you at a time on board..

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety.

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.

He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise , Idaho .

May God Rest His Soul.

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Jesse James, Sandra Bullock, and Tiger Woods.

Medal of Honor Winner
Captain Ed Freeman

Shame on the American media !!!

Now ... PLEASE - pass this along on YOUR mailing list.

Source: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp rg


As Always

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It's not just American media, it's worldwide. Irresponsible, malicious and lacking the morality to report anything good or positive to the masses because that doesn't make big money. Shock value, gruesomeness, crimes, cheating, lies, etc..the bad always gets front page, and unfortunately it happens in most forms of media. A manipulative game is being played and we are all guilty, at one point or another of feeding into the garbage, myself included. It's up to us to make things change, to think for ourselves, not take everything that is fed to us as bond, be mindful, trust with our own eyes and in our own beliefs.

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery,
None but ourselves can free our mind".....
 
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