Shame on the American Media

[roundgunner]

Ed Freeman
You're an 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 last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......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!

Shame on the American Media

 

[roundgunner]

Ed Freeman
You're an 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 last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......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!

Shame on the American Media

 

[Colt357]

It seems the mainstream media never celebrates "Honor" any more. It's just not fashionable.

May all of us pause a moment to "Honor" this true hero, and to "celebrate" what his life stood for.

Dennis

 

[red14]

A true American hero. And yes, the media does not recognize honor any more. I think they don't know what it is.

One man personally saved 30 young men. 14 times he put his life on the line, and he is not mentioned.

Thank you, Roundgunner, for telling us about this great patriot. I, for one, appreciate it.

 

[Hyperion]

With all due respect, it looks like he passed away on August 20 of last year.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...age=gr&GRid=29186886

 

[Onomea]

Roundgunner, don't mean to be critical, and I generally agree with you on the foolishness of the media's fascination with the latest shallow celebrity, and about its ignoring of our military heros in recent years. By and large, they are a buncha hare-brained twits, in my opinion.

And I sure as heck agree that Ed Freeman was a great hero.

But it seems that his death, and supposed lack of coverage thereof, has been twisted a bit. Here's a guy who looked into it:

…. Someone who has received the Congressional Medal of Honor resides in that most esteemed category of deserving honor and especially honesty. That's why the current string of viral e-mails surrounding the recent death of Vietnam helicopter pilot Ed "Too Tall" Freeman deserves total condemnation.

It seems that a few people with an over-arching desire to criticize the "media" have developed the habit of taking the solemn passing of Ed Freeman, connecting it to the latest frivolous celebrity worship and unleashing an indignant tirade that a hero is being ignored. After examining two iterations of this misguided practice it's clear that the authors of these doctored accounts are practicing the self-serving hijacking of a hero's legacy to further their own agenda.

Each incident of this hero hijacking contains two common elements: first, that Ed Freeman passed away last Wednesday, and second, that the death of this hero was callously ignored by the media in favor of celebrity watching. The first incident appears a little over a month after Ed Freeman's actual passing in August 2008. In that version it was the death of Paul Newman in September 2008 that prompted indignant criticism. In the second version the text is only modestly altered, this time to extend Ed Freeman's demise to March 2009 and to use coverage of the assault on singer Rihanna by former boyfriend Chris Brown as the focus of protest.

Each of these rises to the penalty of corrective headshaking because the root complaint of celebrity obsession by the America media is all too real, but twisting and exploiting the memory of a true American military hero is absolutely unacceptable. I spent less than an hour disproving each of these false presentations of the hero versus celebrity e-mail. In the process I discovered 30,000 to 60,000 Internet "hits" recording the legacy of Ed Freeman, read one of the best "Wikipedia" biographies of a veteran that I've ever seen, and read the 1,130 word obituary by his hometown newspaper, the "Idaho Statesman." His real passing was covered with honor, dignity and truthfulness.

http://www.berthoudrecorder.co...ed-or-just-exploited

 

[7.62foryou]

Shame on them also for not covering our current heros. Go on the DoD web site see how many stories of bravery in the face of enemy fire there are, then ask yourself when was the last time you heard any of them on the nightly news (for those whom still tune in) or in a newspaper local or national. We have a media filled with Quislings and tratiors. A free press my arse! Free to print/cover what they want us to read/hear. Makes me want to puke!