Ed Freeman

There is an email circulating about Congressional Medal of Honor (CMH) recipient Ed W. Freeman. About how the Media should be ashamed that they were more interested in a Hip Hop star beating his girlfriend than the death of a CMH recipient. It is partially true. Ed W. Freeman did receive the CMH and he received it for the reason given in the email.. He died in August 2008 though, long before the Hip Hop punk slapped around his girl... We still didn't hear anything about him, even when Congress named a US Post Office facility after him in his home town McLain Mississippi.

Here is the body of the email, I took out the reference to the dirt bag and the media. Also a copy of his CMH citation.. They don't make many like this anymore.. Thank god they still make some..

The Story of 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 August at the age of
80,in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....




FREEMAN, ED W.

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress,
March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of The Congress the Medal of Honor to

CAPTAIN ED W. FREEMAN
UNITED STATES ARMY

for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:

Captain Ed W. Freeman, United States Army, distinguished himself by numerous acts of conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary intrepidity on 14 November 1965 while serving with Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). As a flight leader and second in command of a 16-helicopter lift unit, he supported a heavily engaged American infantry battalion at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam. The unit was almost out of ammunition after taking some of the heaviest casualties of the war, fighting off a relentless attack from a highly motivated, heavily armed enemy force. When the infantry commander closed the helicopter landing zone due to intense direct enemy fire, Captain Freeman risked his own life by flying his unarmed helicopter through a gauntlet of enemy fire time after time, delivering critically needed ammunition, water and medical supplies to the besieged battalion. His flights had a direct impact on the battle's outcome by providing the engaged units with timely supplies of ammunition critical to their survival, without which they would almost surely have gone down, with much greater loss of life. After medical evacuation helicopters refused to fly into the area due to intense enemy fire, Captain Freeman flew 14 separate rescue missions, providing life-saving evacuation of an estimated 30 seriously wounded soldiers -- some of whom would not have survived had he not acted. All flights were made into a small emergency landing zone within 100 to 200 meters of the defensive perimeter where heavily committed units were perilously holding off the attacking elements. Captain Freeman's selfless acts of great valor, extraordinary perseverance and intrepidity were far above and beyond the call of duty or mission and set a superb example of leadership and courage for all of his peers. Captain Freeman's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.

Rest in peace Ed, Thank you for your service to our country...

Gun Laws and The right to self defense..

The time is coming......................



You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your

bedroom door.
Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.
At least two people have broken into your house and are moving

your way.
With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder
brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast
knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before,

and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated

as to make them useless. Yours was never registered.

Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.

They arrest you for First Degree Murder and
Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney,

he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask..

"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave
yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.
Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men
you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't
find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article,
authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.
But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't
Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters.

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.

The national media picks it up, then the international media.

The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll
probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been
burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of
local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.
After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be
prepared next time. The District Attorney uses this to allege that you
were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced,
as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand,
your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors
paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for
the jury to convict you of all charges. The judge sentences you to life
in prison.

This case happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England ,

killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great
British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. This seemingly reasonable law
forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun
sales were to be made only to those who had a license.

The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of

any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration

of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the
Hungerford mass shooting in 1987. Michael Ryan, a mentally

disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw. When the smoke cleared, 17 people

were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun
control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all
privately owned handguns was the objective even though Rya

used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a
semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school..

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally
unstable, or worse, criminals.

Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun
owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense
of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane
Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few sidearm still
owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took
Away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed
self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to
grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that
self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun. Citizens
who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real
criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as
saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."
All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several
elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.

Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply. Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.
How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been
registered and licensed. Kinda like cars.

Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA , THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION

"..it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate,
tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
--Samuel Adams

If you think this is important, please forward to everyone you know

One Trillion Dollars and the Head Fake

The beginning of this post is from a popular e-mail I have received several times.. At the end is a response I sent out to the last one I received...
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What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...

A hundred billion dollars...

Eight hundred billion dollars...

One TRILLION dollars...

We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars.. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

You ready for this?

It's pretty surprising.

Go ahead...

Scroll down...

Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)

The area this occupies is just shy of 5 acres, with one hundred bills stacked 6 feet in height.

So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.




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Yes... And why we were all listening to the Congress get indigent about 165 million in bonuses that were legal, and that they knew about last November. The Fed monetized 1 trillion dollars of our debt.... For those of you who have not participated in sports for the last 20 years, that is called a "Head Fake". Makes you look one way while they go another and leaves you standing there saying "What Happened?"..
What this means is, since no one will buy our debt (because we don't look like we will be able to repay it), they printed another Trillion dollars... So it 's a good thing that you can hold 10k dollars in one hand, that is what you will have to take grocery shopping soon.. If you want to see what happens when a Government Monetizes debt.. Look up stories about Zimbabwe or the Weimar Republic of 1920's Germany . The hyperinflation there allowed the rise of Adolf Hitler.

The American Form of Government

Great find by Two Bears... Show it your children, send the link to your friends...

Interesting Stat

The Debt incurred by the Obama current and projected budget will be larger than all of the debt incurred since the founding of the nation..

Let's see, what did we rack up debt on since the beginning of the nation?

1. The revolution.. 8+ years of war
2. The war of 1812
3. The Louisiana Purchase
   
4. The Mexican war
5. The war between the states (Civil war to you Yankees)
6. The purchase of Alaska (aka Seward's Folly, some one needs to write him (Seward) a good epitaph, best move since #3)
   
7. Spanish American War
8. WWI
9. The Great Depression
10. WWII
11. The Marshall Plan
12. Rebuilding Japan
    
13. Korean War
14. The Space Race
15. The war on poverty aka "The Great Society"(never won, still ongoing after several trillion dollars, thanks to LBJ)
    
16. Vietnam
17. The Cold War
18. Desert Storm
19. Iraq and Afghanistan

If I left anything out I apologize.. But the fact that he will spend more than all of that.. Staggering..

What is recovery?

A good one from my Aunt....

Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.

Depression is when you lose yours.

And recovery is when Obama loses his.

The Great Milton Friedman

This man was the greatest economist of all time. He was to economics what Einstein was to Physics.
Thomas Sowell , a great economist and commentator was a student of his. Please read anything you can find by Sowell and or Walter Williams. They both are great libertarian commentators.

The Medium Three

I have a proverbial hair up my (as my old Drill Sgt used to say) 3 point contact. I am getting tired of hearing leftists and their sympathizers in the media say the following: "Detroit is in trouble because they aren't building the small fuel efficient cars Americans want to buy!" Horse hockey!!! Most if not all of the small cars that Detroit has tried to build have been miserable failures. Toyota and Nissan don't even build that many small cars for sale in the US any more!! In fact both Toyota and Nissan are now building a "Large" pick up truck. A 1/4 ton (F150, D1500, Sierra 1500 class) pick up truck. If Americans wanted small cars why are these traditional small car manufacturers making these large trucks and SUVs? If Americans wanted small cars then the SMART Car would be a break away best seller!! I think I had a go cart larger than one of these when I was a kid.. I saw one for the first time in Rotterdam, Sept 2001. I couldn't believe it.. That someone would actually drive a glorified golf cart. I have seen a few here in the states, but they aren't taking over... Just Greenie Weenies driving them. I wouldn't have the testicular fortitude to take one on I95 and I ride a Harley on it. At least on my Harley I can gun it and get out of trouble. I think these things have a Fred Flintstone Accelerator(I know I am dating myself)...

Detroit is in trouble because they have been paying protection to the Mob for the last 50 years, I mean the UAW.. Not much difference really... Now the appetite of the Mob, oops UAW, is getting too big. At last check,$1500.00 of every vehicle produced by Detroit is just to service Retirees Health Care.. Also the average employee of the Medium 3 makes $40.00 per hour. Auto employees in Alabama, Kentucky and South Carolina make $20.00.. No wonder they are failing.

Here is a statistic for you.. In 2004 GM had gross receipts of 1.4 Billion dollars and were 150 million in the red. Toyota the same year had gross receipts of 1.5 billion dollars and had a profit of 50 million... I wonder what the difference was?

Obama's Tax Cut... Oh Ye Suckers...

Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha! Excuse me for a minute... Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha!

For those of you who actually believed anything this guy said... 95% of Americans will get a tax cut..... Suckers!! The "Tax Cut" of $13.00 per week that some of you folks will be getting... Isn't really a "Cut", a real Tax Cut would involve reducing the rate at which you are taxed. Since that isn't changing, and you may be receiving the generous $13.00... It is INCOME!! So you will have to pay most of it back in additional TAXES!!!!!

Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha! Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha! Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha! Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha! Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha! Ahhhaahaahaahaahaahahaha!