Veteran's Day

Lest we forget ... some of their stories from newspapers around the county,

Omaha World Herald
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10484159

Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/11/39_years_later_vietnam_vet_rea.html

http://www.cleveland.com/worldatwar/

Kansas City Star
http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/884318.html

Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10948502

Des Moines Register
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811110388
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008811110350

Idaho Statesman
http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/566905.html

And especially don't forget the men and women whose stories are still being written.

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=ED6VUItWw6U

"Last post"

Another one who will never be forgotten, Ed Freeman.

This is from an airplane list I'm on. Provenice unknown,

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Ed Freeman

You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, November 14,1965. LZ Xray , Vietnam . Your Infantry Unit is outnumbered 8 to 1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the medevac 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 a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no medevac markings are on it.

Ed 'Too Tall' Freeman is coming for you. He's not a medevac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the medevac's were ordered not to come.

He's coming anyway.

And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, they load 2 or 3 of you onboard, as they drop off much needed water and ammunition.

Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire, to the Doctors and Nurses.

And, he kept coming back...... 19 more times..... and took about 70 of you and your buddies out, who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died August 20, 2008, at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho .

Thanks Ed.......

Blue Skies.
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Freeman was portrayed in the Mel Gibson movie, "We Were Soldiers"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

Also,
http://craig.senate.gov/releases/ed082808.cfm

I wanted to add my grandfather to this.

Carla White died of lung cancer served in WWII.
July 13, 2003
Not sure of any of his information but he was a veterin.

Thanks Paw Paw Your where my father