DONT RE-ELECT ANY POLITICIAN

> > wounded, and dying in the jungle in the IaDrang 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 Sept. 26, 2008

> > 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.)

> > 

> > 

> > Robert Maynard

> > Executive Director

> > Defenders Council of Vermont

> > P.O. Box 444 Burlington VT. 05402

> > V 802-343-2162

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