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A SHORT QUIZ
Ed McMahon died recently. He was a great entertainer, but prior to
his stage accomplishments he was a distinguished Marine Corps
fighter pilot in WWII earning six Air Medals and attaining the rank
of Colonel. He was discharged in 1946 and was later promoted to the
rank of Brigadier General in the CA Air National Guard.
Farrah Fawcett recently after a long career in Hollywood as an
actress. After she was diagnosed with cancer, she became an activist
for cancer treatment and devoted her last remaining years encouraging
people to seek treatment. She documented her plight on film and used
it to encourage others to stay positive and upbeat despite their
diagnosis and suffering.
Michael Jackson died recently. He was perhaps one of the greatest
singers of modern time. He will also be remembered for his eccentric
lifestyle that included sleeping with a chimpanzee, living in a
carnival-like atmosphere at Neverland, his fascination with Peter Pan,
and his numerous masks and costumes. He also admitted to finding
pleasure sleeping with young boys and paying out millions of dollars
in settlements to the families of these boys despite being acquitted by a
court on one allegation of sexual molestation.
QUESTION - Which of the above did the House of Representatives declare
a moment of silence for?
( HINT- IT WASN'T THE FIRST TWO. )
Ed McMahon died recently. He was a great entertainer, but prior to
his stage accomplishments he was a distinguished Marine Corps
fighter pilot in WWII earning six Air Medals and attaining the rank
of Colonel. He was discharged in 1946 and was later promoted to the
rank of Brigadier General in the CA Air National Guard.
Farrah Fawcett recently after a long career in Hollywood as an
actress. After she was diagnosed with cancer, she became an activist
for cancer treatment and devoted her last remaining years encouraging
people to seek treatment. She documented her plight on film and used
it to encourage others to stay positive and upbeat despite their
diagnosis and suffering.
Michael Jackson died recently. He was perhaps one of the greatest
singers of modern time. He will also be remembered for his eccentric
lifestyle that included sleeping with a chimpanzee, living in a
carnival-like atmosphere at Neverland, his fascination with Peter Pan,
and his numerous masks and costumes. He also admitted to finding
pleasure sleeping with young boys and paying out millions of dollars
in settlements to the families of these boys despite being acquitted by a
court on one allegation of sexual molestation.
QUESTION - Which of the above did the House of Representatives declare
a moment of silence for?
( HINT- IT WASN'T THE FIRST TWO. )
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Yeah its lack of morals today.Reading that reminded me of this email I got today about Ed Freeman
Ed Freeman
You're a 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..!!
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 anyway. Even 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..!!
He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.
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've sure seen a whole bunch about some freakish white-gloved sexual pervert's passing..!!
Ed Freeman
You're a 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..!!
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 anyway. Even 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..!!
He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.
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've sure seen a whole bunch about some freakish white-gloved sexual pervert's passing..!!