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You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the La 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 Medi-Vac 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, Idaho . 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".
 

   
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman.

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READ ; Today's Editorial By William Gast    = Is our President and American citizen?

Here is one great illustrator that deserves your look-see http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/

The following is a letter I received from a fellow classmate, a veteran who is a retired Lt. Col and a person that does not forward information that is not reliable. The email speaks for itself and should be passed on to every American that made their choice for,........"CHANGE"?????

*Date: *June 29, 2009 2:20:59 PM PDT
>> *Subject: **David Jr. Meets His commander In Chief*
>>     *David Jr. Meets His commander In Chief

>>
>>
>>     *For those who do not know Dave Borden, he is a former Black & Decker
>>     employee who lives in Hanover . His son Dave Jr was serving
>>     in Iraq and was
>>     badly injured from a bomb explosion. Dave Jr has had over 38
>>     surgeries to
>>     date. The email below is from a recent visit from President
>>     Obama, the   email speaks for its self.*
>>     

>>
>>     Since Dave Jr. has been injured he has met and been overwhelmed
>>     by many,   many political and military "celebs".  The list includes Bob
>>     Gates, Sec  of Defense, who came into his room and told him 3 or 4 times that
>>     if Dave  Jr. had any issues to call his cell phone number.  It includes Gen.
>>     Petereus who sat and talked with Dave Jr. for almost 45 minutes.  The
>>     General recalled vividly all of the circumstances around the
>>     events that   led to fighting that Dave was involved in.  It includes Sen.
>>     McCain who    arrived late on a Saturday afternoon during a thunder storm,
>>     unannounced, and talked to Dave Jr. about how similar their experiences with
>>     fate.  It   includes George Bush when Dave Jr. was invited to attend the very
>>     last   Christmas party at the White House for the White House Staff.
>>     President    Bush and his wife entered the ballroom and immediately went to
>>     Dave Jr.. President Bush knew Dave Jr.'s name as well as when and how he was
>>     injured.  Dave Jr. had a picture taken with Laura and the
>>     President that   he has framed and will cherish forever.  The list goes on and on
>>     of people    coming in to meet Dave Jr. and the other wounded warriors at
>>     Walter Reed     and Bethesda .
>>

>>     Yesterday. Dave Jr. was ordered to be at   the National Naval Hospital with
>>     another 12 soldiers and Marines to meet with Obama.  Obama was
>>     supposed to  arrive at 11:30 AM.  He finally got there at 3:00 PM.

        (EDITOR'S NOTE          FROM We Support The Vets HERE. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE    STOOD IN RANKS IN FULL DRESS UNIFORM WAITING ON A DIGNITARY TO ARRIVE? IT DOES WONDERS FOR MORALE DOES IT NOT?) He entered
>>     the room   with the wounded warriors and quickly shook each of their hands.
>>     He never    asked their names, where they were from, or how they were injured.  
>>      
Then he left.
>>
>>     Dave Jr. has met the people who really care about the military.
>>     All he   remembers from Obama is a weak handshake.  The others in the
>>     room, younger    and less exposed to the people that Dave Jr. has met, were so
>>     disappointed.  Word about Obama's  "insensitive" visit has spread
>>     to the   MATC ( the rehab facility) at Walter Reed and

>>     throughout Bethesda .  The   military sees through his phoniness.
>>
>>     All I can say is that it is such a disappointment that this man is
>>     Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces.  He is an embarrassment
>>     to our   Nation.
>>
>>     Regards,
>>     Dave

>>
       To all of those that read this---and say "That's been around the net for the last month"---we at wesupportthevets say  RIGHT--AND AS FAR AS WE ARE CONCERNED AND ARE CAPABLE OF; IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE AROUND THE NET

 

 

         

Flying space -A (space available) is a benefit we earned. Use it and enjoy your trips. Here are some helpful

hints and references on obtaining free flights to almost anywhere the military flys a mission today.

Phone number to call for flights outbound and seats available

Sign up online for space-A Flights. This actually uses a sign-up from a PDA--cool!  (use browser-back to return)

Here is one for retired that offers senior citizen discounts

Joint Operational airlift Center. These folks fly to some interesting small places. There is a flight schedule on the site but viewable only five days prior

Reports from Vets that have used space-a

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   Casualties in Iraq report  To those that believe that freedom is free---read this day to day report and look at these photos. All gave some. some gave all. Walk the halls of any of our Veterans hospitals and tell us that  these men and women are not still paying for our freedom!!!
 

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