Bill Fikes: April 2009

There seems to be a upswing in incidents of children choking themselves for the purpose of getting a quick rush. If your doing it, stop, if you know someone that does it, tell them to stop or tell their parents, the day you hear they died is too late.
Removing the oxygen from your brain causes it to die just a little more each time, and eventually you will be riding the short bus to your feeding and walking classes.
On the other hand if your stupid enough to engage in this practice it is a good indication that the human gene pool will perhaps be better off without your DNA polluting the mix.

Friday Music

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

To my fellow peasants.

They already owned you. Now they have made debt slaves of your Children. Next year they will own your Grandchildren. Along with the loss of freedom goes a loss of honor for having let our precious freedom slip away without protest. Bill Fikes

Thursday Music

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Thursday Music collection compiled by me for my own amusement.

Medal of Honor Winner 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 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 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 sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend."

Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!

On November 14, 1965, Freeman and his unit transported a battalion of American soldiers to the Ia Drang Valley. Later, after arriving back at base, they learned that the soldiers had come under intense fire and had taken heavy casualties. Enemy fire around the landing zones was so heavy that the medical evacuation helicopters refused to enter the area. Freeman and his commander, Major Bruce Crandall, volunteered to fly their unarmed, lightly armored helicopters in support of the embattled troops. Freeman made a total of fourteen trips to the battlefield, bringing in water and ammunition and taking out wounded soldiers.

Freeman was sent home from Vietnam in 1966 and retired from the military the next year. He settled in the Treasure Valley area of Idaho, his wife Barbara's home state, and continued to work as a pilot. He used his helicopter to fight wildfires, perform animal censuses, and herd wild horses for the Department of the Interior until his final retirement in 1991.

Freeman's commanding officer nominated him for the Medal of Honor for his actions at Ia Drang, but not in time to meet a two-year deadline then in place. He was instead awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The Medal of Honor nomination was disregarded until 1995, when the two-year deadline was removed. He was formally presented with the medal on July 16, 2001, by President George W. Bush.

Freeman died on August 20, 2008 due to complications from Parkinson's disease. He was buried in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise.

In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which depicted the Battle of Ia Drang, Freeman was portrayed by Mark McCracken. The post office in Freeman's hometown of McLain, Mississippi, was renamed the "Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office" in March 2009.

Freeman's official Medal of Honor citation reads:

Captain Ed W. Freeman, United States Army, distinguished himself by numerous acts of conspicuous gallantry and extraordinary intrepidity on 14 November 1965 while serving with Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). As a flight leader and second in command of a 16-helicopter lift unit, he supported a heavily engaged American infantry battalion at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, Republic of Vietnam. The unit was almost out of ammunition after taking some of the heaviest casualties of the war, fighting off a relentless attack from a highly motivated, heavily armed enemy force. When the infantry commander closed the helicopter landing zone due to intense direct enemy fire, Captain Freeman risked his own life by flying his unarmed helicopter through a gauntlet of enemy fire time after time, delivering critically needed ammunition, water and medical supplies to the besieged battalion. His flights had a direct impact on the battle's outcome by providing the engaged units with timely supplies of ammunition critical to their survival, without which they would almost surely have gone down, with much greater loss of life. After medical evacuation helicopters refused to fly into the area due to intense enemy fire, Captain Freeman flew 14 separate rescue missions, providing life-saving evacuation of an estimated 30 seriously wounded soldiers -- some of whom would not have survived had he not acted. All flights were made into a small emergency landing zone within 100 to 200 meters of the defensive perimeter where heavily committed units were perilously holding off the attacking elements. Captain Freeman's selfless acts of great valor, extraordinary perseverance and intrepidity were far above and beyond the call of duty or mission and set a superb example of leadership and courage for all of his peers. Captain Freeman's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.^[4]

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Wednesday Music

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Wednesday Music collection compiled by me for my own amusement.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Tuesday Music

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Monday, April 20, 2009

Monday Music

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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Sunday Music

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Saturday Music

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Friday Music

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Thursday Music

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Thursday Music collection compiled by me for my own amusement.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The Sheeple mass

The Sheeple of Wasilla turned out in force this afternoon to wave signs, block traffic to local businesses and listen to like minded Christian Coalition Right Wing Republicans rail against anything and everything Obama. Walking around the crowd with my long hair I felt like a little like a brother at a Clan rally. More than one eyebrow was raise in my direction by Good Ol' Boys wondering what a real life long hair was doing in their midst.

Congressman for All Alaska Don Young stopped by, got out of his SUV, Mounted the flatbed, said a total of about 20 words and left. Inneffectual and insincere as ever.

If anyone had raised their voices in rage against Bush in this manner during his first 90 days in office there would have been a sorrowful bleeting about "giving him a chance" and "He's just cleaning up Clintons Mess!", But these are the Limbaugh Legions that don't need to think about things like that themselves, they have a party leadership to tell them what to believe.

The bailout was engeneered by Bush and his inbred Cousins, it was just executed by Obama acting on behalf of the puppetmasters. And now we have a thound plus puppets out in the crisp spring Wasilla air dancing on their strings and reciting the party lines back and forth to each other.