You're a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .
Its November 14, 1965 . LZ (landing zone) X-ray.
Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) 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 half 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 a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.
Even after the MedEvacs 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, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.
God bless our vets!
🔥 NEW — Alex Shieh, a student at Brown University, just TORCHED the leadership of his school for running a $46 MILLION DEFICIT while ballooning costs for students.
He even begs the @JudiciaryGOP to SUBPOENA Brown's president, Christina Paxson!
“Brown employs 3,805 full time non-instructional staff for just 7,229 undergrads. That’s one administrator for every two students.”
Where’s the money going? Not to students.
“Brown’s athletic director earns over $1 million” while dorms flood and “burger patties get replaced by an unappetizing beef/mushroom blend.”
This is what Alex calls “an empire of administrative bloat and bureaucracy.”
“Brown is one of several Ivy League schools that settled a federal antitrust lawsuit last year for allegedly colluding to suppress financial aid offers.”
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This clip needs maximum push now. The sniper was inside the police command headquarters. He took the shot from the roof of their HQ. He was aided and all of the surveillance footage inside the building must be reviewed now by the Trump team. Alejandro Mayorkas was in control of this operation. Start to finish find out who brought the shooter into the building and worked your way up from there.
Media Blackout: 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Episode 18
#10 - JP Morgan CEO issues urgent warning to America.
#9 - Mainstream media fails to mention "showers with dad" and molestation claims after Ashely Biden diary leaker is jailed.
#8 - FBI quietly releases unclassified file on Ashli Babbitt…during the solar eclipse.
#7 - A new WEF report reveals the global elites’ shocking plan to enforce vaccination.
#6 - Dr. Phil brutally destroys DEI advocate in under 40 seconds.
#5 - Joe Rogan drops theory explaining why most doctors are silent on COVID vax injuries and deaths.
#4 - Alex Jones to sue FBI and CIA after undercover video reveals feds targeted him.
#3 - Former CBS reporter accuses network of “journalistic rape” for barring her efforts to “expose government corruption.”
#2 - Incriminating audio captures Biden telling his ghostwriter, “I just found all the classified documents stuff downstairs.”
#1 - Esteemed Japanese professor blows the whistle on the entire COVID scam.
Plus, an exclusive interview with Martin Armstrong on the future of the world’s economy. (Watch)
Articles are included in the thread 🧵 below.
Katharine Hepburn’s childhood, in her own words.
“Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus.
Finally, there was only one other family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me.
There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. The way they were dressed, you could tell they didn't have a lot of money, but their clothes were neat and clean.
The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, animals, and all the acts they would be seeing that night. By their excitement you could sense they had never been to the circus before. It would be a highlight of their lives.
The father and mother were at the head of the pack standing proud as could be. The mother was holding her husband's hand, looking up at him as if to say, "You're my knight in shining armour." He was smiling and enjoying seeing his family happy.
The ticket lady asked the man how many tickets he wanted? He proudly responded, "I'd like to buy eight children's tickets and two adult tickets, so I can take my family to the circus." The ticket lady stated the price.
The man's wife let go of his hand, her head dropped, the man's lip began to quiver. Then he leaned a little closer and asked, "How much did you say?" The ticket lady again stated the price.
The man didn't have enough money. How was he supposed to turn and tell his eight kids that he didn't have enough money to take them to the circus?
Seeing what was going on, my dad reached into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill, and then dropped it on the ground. (We were not wealthy in any sense of the word!) My father bent down, picked up the $20 bill, tapped the man on the shoulder and said, "Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket."
The man understood what was going on. He wasn't begging for a handout but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, heartbreaking and embarrassing situation.
He looked straight into my dad's eyes, took my dad's hand in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied; "Thank you, thank you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my family."
My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 that my dad gave away is what we were going to buy our own tickets with.
Although we didn't get to see the circus that night, we both felt a joy inside us that was far greater than seeing the circus could ever provide.
That day I learnt the value to Give.
The Giver is bigger than the Receiver. If you want to be large, larger than life, learn to Give. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.
The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasised because there's always joy in giving. Learn to make someone happy by acts of giving.”
Happy Wednesday folks 💫