Media

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 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 , 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 the death of Michael Jackson and all the "drama" with Tiger Woods!  How do you feel about this?  Does it bother you that our media focuses so much on the stars of Hollywood or the studs of the professional athletic world?  Is it fair that the people who risk their own lives and ask for NOTHING in return go unnoticed' while others require (and acquire) thousands or even millions of dollars to make guest appearances at high profile events?


Today you have two parts to your post.  First, you need to answer these questions I have presented to you and explain your responses.  Don't bash, but make sure you get your point across.  Then, I want you to search online and find a story that has been "buried" that you feel deserves some recognition.  It can be about anything that YOU feel should be pushed to the forefront of media coverage.  You can either copy and paste the article into your blog post or just summarize what you have found.  Either way, make sure you give credit to the website (and author, if possible) where you found the information.

For the record, the story above was sent to me via email.  I have since found numerous reliable sources with the same information.  If you would like to see actual results of my find, you can go here or here.  With that said, please make sure you find actual stories that come from reliable sources.  If you are not sure, look for multiple established sources with the same information...personal blogs or wikipedia might not be your best bet!


Ok...get busy and enjoy your time as an investigative reporter!! :)