08-21-2008, 09:00
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Gun Pilot
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Major Ed Too Tall Freeman
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08-21-2008, 09:03
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Rest In Peace sir.
You will not be forgotten.
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08-21-2008, 09:20
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Guerrilla Chief
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Rest in Peace
and Thanks for your service
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08-21-2008, 09:26
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Quiet Professional
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Location: 18 yrs upstate NY, 30 yrs South Florida, 20 yrs Conch Republic, now chasing G-Kids in NOVA & UK
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RIP
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08-21-2008, 09:31
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CAVU, Major. Rest in Peace.
Pat
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08-21-2008, 09:32
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RIP - a true hero.
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08-21-2008, 09:35
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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....
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SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
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06-15-2009, 12:57
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Ed Freeman
You're a 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 [August 20, 2008] at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul. Ed Freeman!
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06-15-2009, 13:06
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God bless you. Rest in Peace Warrior. A thank you, for what you have done, is simply not enough.
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06-16-2009, 14:36
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Stedfast
You're a 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 [August 20, 2008] at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul. Ed Freeman!
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Stedfast,
That's one of the finest posts I've read on this forum........  Well done Warrior Freeman....... He wasn't wearing a Green Beret but he certainly reflected what it's all about........  God bless men like that...............
GB TFS 
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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......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
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06-16-2009, 14:57
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Stedfast,
That's one of the finest posts I've read on this forum........ Well done Warrior Freeman....... He wasn't wearing a Green Beret but he certainly reflected what it's all about........ God bless men like that...............
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I do not believe that he wrote that, though there is no attribution.
It sounds like something Joe Galloway would have written, and is a great epitaph.
RIP, Major!
TR
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06-17-2009, 21:51
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Geat post steadfast
-Lest we forget
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06-23-2009, 19:19
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Quote:
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I do not believe that he wrote that, though there is no attribution.
It sounds like something Joe Galloway would have written, and is a great epitaph.
RIP, Major!
TR
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No, I did not write it, I recieved it from a retired Army First Sergeant, who happens to be an English Teacher now. But, I am not sure he wrote it either. So maybe Joe Galloway did.
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06-23-2009, 19:33
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You left off the rest of the e-mail which continued to circulate long after Too Tall's death.
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bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating his "girlfriend"
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Shame on the American Media
http://www.2news.tv/younews/44198482.html
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Too Tall's obit was published and did make the news - I even saw it on CBS. Although I think the 'meat' of the e-mail is a worthy reminder to us all of the sacrifices of Americans like Too Tall, I do get tired of the e-politicizing.
Richard's $.02
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