Intercepted Email

Lack of Quality News Reflects Value System

carol gibson
Recently, we writers were dismayed at the across the board denigration regarding this site. Google downgraded everyone here in one fell swoop. The quality writers got lumped in with otherwise less experienced and/or poor quality content. For a better perspective, the following email might help if someone from Google were to read it. That's if they aren't all running around to the world contributing to a favorite charity. If Google isn't aware that this is a huge problem throughout all sources of media, they should read this email:

You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in The jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam . It's November 11, 1967. 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 Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise , Idaho

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.

I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen and the bickering of congress over Health Reform.

Shame on the American media !!!

Now... YOU pass this along to YOUR mailing list. Honor this real American.

Please.

This does make a person stop and think. Are Google's search engines near sighted? Are search engines geared to the popular masses because of earning potential that comes from satisfying one singular strata of readership? Or is it Obama who wasn't even in the U.S. on Veteran's Day. What is the value system of the World Wide Internet?

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Insatiable curiosity spearheads many endeavors, including occupational pursuits for Carol Gibson. She advocates for literacy by volunteering in a community, donation-based bookstore. Carol enjoys research a...  View profile

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  • Teila Tankersley9/7/2011

    So true

  • LarrWayne Po4/26/2011

    Thanks for airing quality news. somebody's got to do it, in spite of the self elevating creeps affiliated with the wrong crowds in DC..

  • Delicia Powers4/26/2011

    Beautiful carol, bravo!

  • Michele Starkey4/26/2011

    I couldn't agree with you more on this, so many stories only get told by the writers (like you) who bring them to the table. Unfortunately, Google is not helping the situation. cheers

  • Allana Calhoun4/25/2011

    Even journalists that are trusted by the peope to provide the truth, have a hard time getting that truth to the people. It is a combination of politics, misled media, and public ignorance that continues to purport the lack of focus on the things that really need it.

  • Lori Gunn4/25/2011

    Most of us know the answer to the question. Look who is in the White House, look who is in the media (have you ever noticed that a lot of the radio talk show guys urge us to support the military but have never raised their hand to try it?) and figure out what most Americans do not want to hear. They do not want to hear jobs are lacking, soldiers are dying and drug lords still own a big portion of our country. Excellent article!

  • Lorraine Yapps Cohen4/25/2011

    The media is a hopeless case. It serves Hollywood and the White House rather than people and the American values they hold dear. Thanks for passing on this account of a true American hero.

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