Play online chess!

From	Message
anomalocaris 24-Feb-13, 19:15	Good read 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 at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul..... I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing.
changeling 24-Feb-13, 19:17	Sadly, no!......................
chaz- 24-Feb-13, 19:43	... there have been some magnificent souls worthy of our respect and admiration who, within their own world of honest humility, never expected much direct attention to their lives. It seems unfortunate not to recognize it before its too late ... but I'm convinced these souls know so much more about life than the rest of us do. The world is a better place for such souls.
thumper 24-Feb-13, 19:59	I first heard stories of him during my Marine Corps days (Marines love that kind of stuff and his actions earned our respect, even across military boundaries). He was also well known and respected by my later Air Force rescue unit. He was one of those old school, 3 war guys who weren't afraid of mixing it up. They did what had to be done, "because it needed doing". They're almost all gone now. I heard when he passed. Thanks for the reminder Stinky.
softaire 25-Feb-13, 18:05	There were two kinds of people you always respect in a combat situation. They are helicopter pilots and Corpsmen, plus the guy next to you.
ace-of-aces 25-Feb-13, 18:29	Was he the legendary Forest Gump ? I like the movie, Forest Gump starring Tom Hanks. The movie story was based on true medal of honor recipient in Vietnam. Was he the one which this movie is based ? Although Forest Gump got the medal of honor by just running, carrying the wounded soldiers.
changeling 25-Feb-13, 19:35	ace No not Ed Freeman! The man Forest Gump was based on: www.military.com

GameKnot: play chess online, monthly chess tournaments, chess teams, Internet chess league, chess clubs, online chess puzzles, free online chess games database and more.