tainogirlTrincity,West Indies,, Trinidad and Tobago3,777 posts
Some people are so greedy for a buck that they would have absolutely no problem popping their wrinkly old grandmother or grandfather down in bed with Michael Jackson if they could make a buck from it. Sad and pathetic
Medsummer09: found this on another place I visit and it rings true.
"It's a damn shame Michael Jackson gets the glory in death while true heroes are ignored.
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 out numbered 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 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 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 on Wednesday, JUNE 15th, 2009 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID. May God rest his soul.
Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman! Since the Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves send this to every red blooded American you know. THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY. RIP"
That brought tears to my eyes - well said and thank you
cristinaLisbon, North Holland Netherlands17,243 posts
Get real.
You guys have interest on weapons of massive distruction, read only that, try to listen to that part of the news.
Don't come here talking about the world suffering just to block or deviate the interest towards MJ's death. The issues belong to different segments. Global warming. It's a serious threat, each day more and more. Are all those issues interchangeable? Come on, foccus on your interest, open a thread to talk about what matters to you and let others feel what they want to. I mean, I never saw a thread being evaded by a totally new subject. It's not a small chit chat deviation we do sometimes, it's indeed a proposal of a new thread, new subject in another thread! That's not admissible!
Now, did we have enough threads over MJ? Yes we did. Those who want to talk about it, stick to the ones already existing about it instead of trying to call our attention by starting another one. The same applies to any subject.
cristinaLisbon, North Holland Netherlands17,243 posts
cristina: Get real.
You guys have interest on weapons of massive distruction, read only that, try to listen to that part of the news.
Don't come here talking about the world suffering just to block or deviate the interest towards MJ's death. The issues belong to different segments. Global warming. It's a serious threat, each day more and more. Are all those issues interchangeable? Come on, foccus on your interest, open a thread to talk about what matters to you and let others feel what they want to. I mean, I never saw a thread being evaded by a totally new subject. It's not a small chit chat deviation we do sometimes, it's indeed a proposal of a new thread, new subject in another thread! That's not admissible!
Now, did we have enough threads over MJ? Yes we did. Those who want to talk about it, stick to the ones already existing about it instead of trying to call our attention by starting another one. The same applies to any subject.
tainogirl: What exactly does Michael Jackson have to do with soldiers not being honoured? Everyday people die, pass away with barely a mention - people who do good things in their life that benefits others. Who sent those soldiers out there to die? Yes they are dying for their country and I am sure they understand the risks that come with this job. And the Government that sends them also know that in battle their are going to be casualties but they send them anyway. On the other hand the media enjoys a circus, so soldiers dying versus showman, 'whacko', 'childmolester' celebrity is gonna be bigger, because its fun to build you up and then watch you drop. Because its more fun to watch a train wreck of someones life than it is to watch news about more soldiers dying. But that is the nature of the beast that your media have created. Yes the soldier's should be honoured - all of them, so too should Michael but for very different reasons, but as those with eyes to see will notice Fame can kill as surely as a bullet taken in battle.
roseofsharonmanchester, Hampshire, England UK8,699 posts
gentlepaws: No matter who or what he was, he did influence our lives through his art. I have to ask the question; what value on a life, three more Canadian soldiers died this week in Afghanistan, not to mention all the American young men and women who have died in the Iraq conflict....is there a grand tribute to them ? No. I ask why not ? Michael Jackson sang and died....our troops sang and died as well, but they are quickly forgotten.
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