08-21-2008, 09:00
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Gun Pilot
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa and New Mexico
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Major Ed Too Tall Freeman
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E7-CW3-direct commission VN
B model gunship pilot 65-66 Soc Trang, Cobra Pilot 68-69-70 Can Tho Life member 101st Airborne Association
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08-21-2008, 09:03
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Onalaska, Texas
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Rest In Peace sir.
You will not be forgotten.
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"Make up your minds that happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous." Pericles
"Men who live by playing with knowledge may be called scholars, but they can never be men of wisdom." Hiratsuka Raicho
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08-21-2008, 09:20
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Ohio
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Rest in Peace
and Thanks for your service
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LOYALTY - HONOR - INTEGRITY
Understand the problem; pull your weight. Appreciate. Be completely honest and trustworthy in all things. - Jeff Cooper
Practice honesty and integrity; rescue the man who has been wronged from the hands of his oppressor; do not exploit the stranger, the orphan, the widow; do no violence; shed no innocent blood in this place. Jer 22:3
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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08-21-2008, 09:26
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
Posts: 11,901
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RIP
From an old Gary Owen Trooper, 2/7th Cav
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Go raibh tú leathuair ar Neamh sula mbeadh a fhios ag an diabhal go bhfuil tú marbh
"May you be a half hour in heaven before the devil knows you’re dead"
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08-21-2008, 09:31
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Area Commander
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cochise Co., AZ
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CAVU, Major. Rest in Peace.
Pat
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass
"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -- Dennis Prager
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H.L. Mencken
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08-21-2008, 09:32
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Georgetown, SC
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RIP - a true hero.
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08-21-2008, 09:35
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Quiet Professional (RIP)
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Carriere,Ms.
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RIP.....
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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08-21-2008, 09:44
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: NorCal
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RIP.
Here are some good info links on his actions.
CMOH Society
http://www.cmohs.org/recipients/freeman.htm
President GW Bush's remarks at the ceremony in The White House.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0010716-1.html
Richard
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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08-21-2008, 09:47
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fayetteville
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RIP
RIP Major
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08-21-2008, 09:48
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Colorado Springs
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Rest easy, and enjoy the trade up on your set of "wings".
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08-21-2008, 10:16
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Guerrilla Chief
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: VA
Posts: 859
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RIP Sir
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"Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me."- Richard Proenneke
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08-21-2008, 10:22
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Area Commander
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Delaware
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In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti, Amen.
In pace requiescat Sir.
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You ask; What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.” You ask; What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.-Winston Churchill
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08-21-2008, 10:37
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Sneaking back and forth across the Border
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Rest in Peace Sir. You will never be forgotten.....
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08-21-2008, 12:25
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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RIP, Too Tall.
Thank you for your service.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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08-21-2008, 12:31
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Area Commander
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Location: UK
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Rest In Peace Major Freeman! Thank you for your service and dedication!
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