It is with profound sadness
that we report the passing of
Earl Hopper, Sr., Col. USA RET.
Col.
Hopper died today, 11 July 2008, in Arizona.
Earl was a highly decorated veteran of World
War II, Korea, and Vietnam, whose son, Earl
Hopper, Jr., USAF, was listed as missing in
action since January 10, 1968. Earl was an icon
and much admired among POW/MIA activists and
veterans.
We offer our
sincere condolences to his wife, Patti Hopper,
Chairwoman of Task Force Omega, Inc., and we
shall remember Col. Hopper, Patti, and Earl,
Jr. in our prayers.
John J. Molloy
Chairman
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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 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, 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!
Shame on the American
Media
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Col.
Robert Purcell spent nearly eight years as a
POW, keeping his honor and sense of humor
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 09, 2009
FORT WORTH — Sometimes
the measure of a man comes from the stories
people tell about him.
And there are a lot of
stories circulating now about Robert Purcell,
an Air Force pilot who spent an almost incomprehensible
time — July 27, 1965, to Feb. 12, 1973
— in a North Vietnamese prison.
Col. Purcell —
Percy to those who knew him — died in
his home in Fort Worth on Sunday.
Obituary
here>>
