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Make the public aware of the plight of our nation’s Veterans. 

Assist Veterans by whatever means we have available.      

Counseling individual Veterans when appropriate and/or referring them to agencies better suited to meet their needs.

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To assist and fund housing of homeless veterans including but not limited to providing rent, utilities, food, clothing and furniture to aid in their transition from off the street.  

To provide patients in Veterans Hospitals and Homes with toiletries, clothing, books, games, and other items.

To provide comfort and care packages to deployed troops in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (Iraq) and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan).  Comfort and Care packages could include but not be limited to hand-made blankets, personal hygiene products, books, magazines, sports equipment, power bars, breakfast bars, and other treats.

 

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A True American Hero

R.I.P.













 


Ed W. "Too Tall" Freeman
November 20, 1927 - August 20, 2008

You're a 19 year old kid, critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, LZ Xray,
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 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, and you look up to see an un-armed
Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no Medi-Vac markings 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 told 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 waiting Doctors and Nurses.
  
And, he kept coming back...... 13 more times..... and took over 30 of you and your buddies out,
who would never have gotten out.
  
Medal of Honor Recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday, in Boise , ID , at the age of 80.
  
May God rest his soul.....
 

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