You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray , 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.....

(Oh yeah, Paul Newman died that day too. I guess you knew that --
He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman.)

That's one of the things wrong with our country today; ask any teenager or idiot (but I repeat myself)on the street and they will tell you more than you would ever care to know about the bio/schedule/latest tawdry escapade of the likes of Paris Hilton , but real heroes like Ed Freeman are only known by those who's lives he saved, if even by them.

I wonder how many people realize that they don't really teach History,Geography, or basic Economics in school any more ?; rather they blend a watered down pablum of half truths, conjectures, and the latest PC version of the past and present it as "Social Studies".

Our Republic was founded with the idea that an EDUCATED electorate would be the true rulers, but the People have not tended to their responsibility and have allowed self-serving Politicians and Socialists pulling the strings in the background to gradually reduce the amount of true education that the average citizen receives. These days the Electorate has become nothing more than a Mob mentality group, pandered to every election cycle and then betrayed to special interests after the election. Even worse, the slow spread of Socialism has continued unabated, with every protest against it blocked by an elitist political class interested only in their own agendas.

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