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20 April 2012, 17:02
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Cpt. Ed Freeman
I got this as an email:
You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .. It's November 11, 1967. LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO has ordered the 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 half 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. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway. Even after the MedEvacs 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 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient Captain Ed Freeman United States Air Force died last Wednesday at the age of 70 Boise, Idaho May God Bless and Rest His Soul. Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
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Wolves and alligators should be cross-bred to make wolfagators that will be silent and fast, and we'll never have to hear from those people, they will just be wolfagator shit. -Eltrane Are you fucking serious? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week...and I'm at a senior staff planning conference, so, the bar has been set pretty high. You should be proud. - Gavin “I was recently on a boat to Alcatraz. ‘Why can’t we reopen it for all the bad guys in San Francisco now?’ Out-of-towners all laughed.” “The residents on the boat didn’t.” 
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20 April 2012, 17:16
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Thank you for sharing that.
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SSgt Greg "Old Man" Copes, USMC, KIA Aug 17, 2012. Rest in Peace my friend. "I wish you could see, what I can see... Sometimes, you have to be up really high... To understand how small you are. I'm coming home now." Felix Baumgartner
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20 April 2012, 17:24
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R.I.P. hero...
Ia Drang; a hideous incident. My buddy Mark was there... he knew he was to die that day. He's alive, today; CSM (Ret), S.F., Ranger, Pathfinder, Mountain.
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'Living on the edge... of being banned from SOCNET' Welcome to my family; do NOT make me kill you. Last edited by tooslow; 20 April 2012 at 17:35.
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20 April 2012, 18:03
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Frog has already addressed the discrepencies with this email chain letter once....
http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=9...hlight=Freeman And it was mentioned even previously. http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=9...hlight=Freeman http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=8...hlight=Freeman And the first thread? http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=81884 Actually, this is probably the first one. http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=8...hlight=Freeman This thread may be the first mentioning him.... http://socnet.com/showthread.php?t=1...hlight=Freeman
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Losing faith in humanity, one assclown at a time.... Last edited by SOTB; 20 April 2012 at 18:12.
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21 April 2012, 00:36
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I am sorry
I tried to search, as I have been here for a bit, but if I was wrong I retract it all.
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Wolves and alligators should be cross-bred to make wolfagators that will be silent and fast, and we'll never have to hear from those people, they will just be wolfagator shit. -Eltrane Are you fucking serious? That's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week...and I'm at a senior staff planning conference, so, the bar has been set pretty high. You should be proud. - Gavin “I was recently on a boat to Alcatraz. ‘Why can’t we reopen it for all the bad guys in San Francisco now?’ Out-of-towners all laughed.” “The residents on the boat didn’t.”
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