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Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Warrior Nirvana

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 from email

This one is for Private Matt Maupin, a local soldier captured 4 yrs ago
and listed as missing in action. His remains were finally discovered this past weekend March 29 - 30, 2008). He would have been 24 this July.
The insurgants put him on video after they captured him and televised
it. Shortly thereafter another video was seen of a soldier as he was
beheaded. But his family firmly believed it wasnt him. All
we know is that his remains have been found, whether or not he was
actually beheaded, we dont know (and they complain about how we treat
our captives). But his family now has closure. President Bush called
and offered his condolences. Matt's family has been to the White House
several times a t the request of the President. His family is not mad that he went and sacraficed his life. They are extremely proud of him.
His family and many of their friends even marched in our local annual
Baseball Opening Day Parade on Monday, proudly carrying Flags in honor
of their son.

President John F. Kennedy expressed it rather well when he said,
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." God Bless Matt Maupin, and all of our soldiers, Veterans,
past, present, future, living and deceased. Long Live Freedon.

Hoff · Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 506 Location: Warrior Nirvana

Ed Freeman

You're an 18 or 19 year old soldier. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang 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 battalion 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 halfway around the world and you know 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 guns, you faintly hear the sound of a helicopter, and you look up to see a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no MediVac markings are on it.

Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not MediVac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the MediVacs 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 otherwise.

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died last Week, 2008, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul.....

DEMON · Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 185 Location: Houston,Texas

AMEN SIR! GOD BLESS THIER SOULS!