Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Mistermusic5 Wins PokerStars Tourney!

“I just played a 360 person MTT - #231258213 on PokerStars, taking first and winning 85x my buy-in.”

Congratulations Mistermusic5, but a little more detail and story line would help Faldo out.

Nice job, and with the rest of the group, you carry the NPP banner well, Music!

So let’s add a ‘hat tip’ to Theedouble*d:

“We always hear about the Tiger’s, the Edwards’, terrorists and corrupt officials. Lets hear a beautiful story.”

You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley. November 11, 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 Medi-Vac 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 unarmed 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 W. Freeman, died August 20, 2008.
at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho. – Wikipedia

1 comment:

BigBri said...

Wow great story,
Thank you to all the Ed Freemans out there for going above and beyond the call of duty.
That's what makes America great!