A News story you won't get from the mainstream media

You're an 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"

 

He was a great hero.

However, I gotta say that the fact that there were over 34,000 google hits and stories of his passing on many websites and news outlets, such as MSNBC, means that he wasn't all that forgotten. Do you really think he would want his name plastered all over the front page?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Medal+of+Honor+Recipient%2C+Ed+Freeman&btnG=Google+Search&aq=0&oq=

 

When did you become the resident liberal spinmeister?

I've seen, literally, dozens of references to the Rihanna sh!t stomping. Until I got the email, I had never heard of Freedman, let alone his death.

What should one google? "Today's news that that hasn't been reported" ?

 

So what is the point of your post? Just an old man rant? Settle down gramps, nobody is trying to diminish the value of a Medal of Honor recipient. Pop culture news will always trump military news in terms of popularity, unless there is a major war with alot of killing going on. It's been that way for a long, long time. It sucks, but that's how it is.

 

So does the road to socialism but I'm still going to bitch about it.

Besides, I wouldn't expect people who haven't served to "get" it.

 

Rest in peace Mr Freeman.

Thanks for the post SabanFan.

 

The guy deserves to rest in peace, hes a hero.

Rhianna nor Chris Brown are hip hop artist, both are pop singers.

 

There's nothing "artistic" about hip hop, rap, whatever.

 

your entitled to your opinion.

 

You don't have to have served to "get it". People who haven't served can appreciate our troops as much as a veteran can.

I just don't think you are correct in asserting that this went unnoticed when I see that many news outlets reported on it. I don't know if you can realistically expect a front page splash on Drudge every time a M.O.H. recipient dies. What do you think would have been the appropriate level of coverage?

And I honestly haven't seen anything about this Rhianna BS in a few months. The first question I had when I heard about it was "what did she do?" :hihi::hihi::hihi: