Subject: Darn Right I'll Pass This ON
You're a 19 year old kid.
You're critically wounded and dying in
the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Vietnam
It's November 14, 1965.
LZ (landing zone) X-ray in the Id Drang Valley.
Your unit is outnumbered 12-1 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.
2 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 "Too Tall" 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 Army, died
last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , Idaho
May God Bless and Rest His Soul.
I'll bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen
a whole bunch about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods, the bickering by
congress over Health Reform and the bashing of the left and right.
Medal of Honor recipient Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the American media and those who would undermine our country
for political gamesmanship!!!
Now... YOU pass this along to YOUR
mailing list. Honor this real American.
Please.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
One of the best! Thanks Doug Brooke!
One of Maxine's very best!!
Minorities
We need to show more sympathy for these people.
* They travel miles in the heat.
* They risk their lives crossing a border.
* They don't get paid enough wages.
* They do jobs that others won't do or are afraid to do.
* They live in crowded conditions among a people who speak a different language.
* They rarely see their families, and they face adversity all day ~ every day..
I'm not talking about illegal Mexicans ~
I'm talking about our troops!
Doesn't it seem strange that so many are willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegals, but don't support our troops?
Wouldn't it be great if we took the $360,000,000,000 (that's billion) we spend on illegals every year, and spend it on our troops!!!
Please pass this on; this is worth the short time it takes.
A veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to‘The United States of America ’ for any amount, up to and including their life.
And it's true ... thanks Ramey Hoskins!
This is but one more reason why America’s public schools,
once the envy of the world, are now the joke of the world.
once the envy of the world, are now the joke of the world.
The Lord's Prayer ... thanks Nita Elliott!
What a special way to begin this Sunday after Thanksgiving, Nita! Thanks good friend! I often get lost in my reverie in my prayers to the Almighty. Jesus taught us how to pray:
Subject: Fw: Our Lord's Prayer
OUR LORD 'S PRAYER
The moment you receive it, say:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory now and forever. Amen..
GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU ,
It shall be well with you this coming year..
No matter how much your enemies try this year, they will not succeed.
You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year...
For the remainder of 2011, all your agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will be incoming in abundance. Today, God has confirmed the end of your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.
I knocked at heaven's door this morning, God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said,
'Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message..'
It has never been broken. Within 48 hours send as many as you can - God does know if you don't have 20 people to send it to. It's the effort and intent that counts. to family and friends.
This is a powerful Prayer. Couldn't hurt. Can only help..Please do not break it...
Subject: Fw: Our Lord's Prayer
OUR LORD 'S PRAYER
The moment you receive it, say:
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil..
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory now and forever. Amen..
GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU ,
It shall be well with you this coming year..
No matter how much your enemies try this year, they will not succeed.
You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year...
For the remainder of 2011, all your agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will be incoming in abundance. Today, God has confirmed the end of your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.
I knocked at heaven's door this morning, God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said,
'Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message..'
It has never been broken. Within 48 hours send as many as you can - God does know if you don't have 20 people to send it to. It's the effort and intent that counts. to family and friends.
This is a powerful Prayer. Couldn't hurt. Can only help..Please do not break it...
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Basketball Title Run
This recently appeard in Investor's Business Daily:
Management
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Basketball Title Run
By CLAY LATIMER, FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 11/09/2011 01:35 PM ET
Rupp took over the University of Kentucky team in 1930 and stayed 42 years with the Wildcats, whose new season starts Friday night. AP View Enlarged Image
Adolph Rupp was a high school basketball coach in 1930 when he sat down to interview for the University of Kentucky job.
Asked why he should get it over 70 other candidates, the 29-year-old Kansas native didn't miss a beat: "Because I'm the best damned coach in the nation."'
That claim turned out right.
In 42 years at Kentucky, Rupp won 879 games, four national championships and 27 Southeastern Conference titles. His Wildcats also set an NCAA record by winning 129 straight home games.
A master of motivation and strategy, he helped revolutionize the game with a fast-break attack that was decades ahead of his contemporaries, made the sport a near-religious mania in Kentucky, and helped transform college basketball into a national game.
There were troubles, too, especially in 1952, when his Wildcats were put on probation for a year. Rupp also was criticized for taking too long to integrate the team.
But before John Wooden, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski, there was Adolph Rupp, the Baron of the Bluegrass.
In Front
Rupp's Keys
Fourth (behind Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith) in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games.
Ranks second among all coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee.
C.M. Newton, a former Kentucky player and athletic director, as well as Alabama and Vanderbilt coach, told IBD: "When I think of the founders of modern basketball, I think of Adolph Rupp. He saw basketball on a whole different level. He was a pioneer in just about everything related to basketball. Alabama football is what I think of when I think of Kentucky basketball. And when I think about Bear Bryant, I think about Adolph Rupp."
Born of 19th-century immigrants in southeast Kansas, Rupp (1901-77) grew up on a farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. He played at the University of Kansas for legendary coach Phog Allen, who had an office down the hall from basketball's inventor, James Naismith.
Rupp spent much of his time studying the techniques of those two mentors. Later he would create offensive styles and defensive sets that had never been used.
After graduating in 1923, Rupp coached high school basketball in Burr Oak, Kan., for a year before moving on to Freeport, Ill., where he won 80% of his games.
After Kentucky hired him, Rupp was an instant success.
The Wildcats had never scored more than 44 points in the 27 seasons before he arrived. They scored 67 in his debut.
The next morning, a newspaper account noted that a new brand of basketball had come to Blue Grass country. Rupp compiled a 20-5 record in his first two years, then won the SEC title in the league's first season, 1932-33.
"He was tough to play against. He beat the heck out of teams. He took no prisoners,'' said Hugh Coy, a member of the undefeated 1953-54 Kentucky team.
Within years of Rupp's landing, basketball took its place next to coal, horses and bourbon as cultural icons in Kentucky. On winter nights, citizens from Rabbit Hash to Bowling Green huddled around radios to listen to Wildcat games.
"You could see lights in homes all across the state as you flew over Kentucky,'' said Vernon Hatton, an All-American on the Wildcats' 1958 national championship team.
Peace And Triumph
After World War II, Rupp emerged as the nation's premier college coach. He won his first two national titles in 1948 and 1949 with the Alex Groza-led Fabulous Five, captured a third championship in 1951 and the fourth in 1958.
"It was like watching a symphony. He's the reason Kentucky basketball is what it is,'' Coy said.
After losing to Ohio State on Jan. 2, 1943, Rupp started a home-court winning streak that didn't end until a 59-58 loss to Georgia Tech 12 years later.
Afterward, Rupp told his depressed team: "From this time until history is no longer written, you will be remembered as the team that broke that string. Even if you go on to win the NCAA championship, you must carry this scar with you the rest of your lives."
The prospect of defeat haunted Rupp. He once expressed his intensity with two takes:
So nervous was he before games, he felt like he had lye in his stomach. When an opponent scored against the Cats, his heart bled.
"He's the most competitive man who ever coached,'' Hatton said. "One night Alabama scored 100 points against us. He told us if he'd been a player in that game, he would've tried to eat the ball before a team scored 100 against him.''
Rupp sometimes ordered the Wildcats back on the court after the crowd left in order to correct mistakes made in the game.
Serious Sweat
Practices were sacred to Rupp, who drilled his players without letup. The sessions started at 3:30 p.m. and ended at 5, and every drill followed a rigid schedule.
There was no talk, no laughter, no clowning, and Rupp got after any player who performed poorly.
Players repeated the same 10 offensive plays until they became an automatic part of their games.
His assistants charted every pass, every shot, every move. After one practice, Rupp reported that his team had handled the ball 3,308 times and made five mistakes.
Red Auerbach, the great Boston Celtics coach, once said he would rather watch Kentucky practice than see most teams play.
Said Coy: "He practiced for perfection."
Rupp did enjoy the fame. Photos of him with President Truman, Bob Hope and other celebrities lined his office walls. He walked onto the court after the last bar of the national anthem for dramatic effect.
"If anyone had a camera, he'd follow them around to make sure they took a picture of him," Hatton said.
When a point-shaving scandal hit college basketball in 1950, Rupp declared, "Gamblers couldn't get at our players with a 10-foot pole.'' But some of his players were implicated, and Kentucky was punished in the 1952-53 season, forced to sit out tournament play.
In the 1966 national title game, an all-black lineup from Texas Western beat the all-white Wildcats, a monumental game that left Rupp with an image as the face of segregated basketball.
His fans point out that he coached black players in high school, coached against college teams with black players, and recruited a black athlete the same year Bryant recruited his first at Alabama.
"Coach Rupp may have been a lot of different things — demanding, overbearing — but one thing I know he was not was a racist,'' Newton said. "He would have integrated the program at Kentucky had the rest of the conference been willing to go along. Mississippi State won a league championship and couldn't play against a team with black players. "Coach Rupp would've adjusted. One of the things about coach Rupp and coach Bryant was their ability to adjust to the modern athlete, the different standards, the different styles of play.''
In 1967, Rupp became college basketball's all-time winningest coach when Kentucky beat Notre Dame 81-73. His 772nd victory moved him past his former coach, Allen.
The Twilight
After retiring in 1972, Rupp became president of the Memphis Tams of the American Basketball Association and vice chairman of the board for the Kentucky Colonels, another ABA team.
He died at age 76 in Lexington on a December night in 1977 when Kentucky defeated his alma mater at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. That game was promoted as Adolph Rupp Night.
"It took us five or so years for me to know how much we loved the guy,'' Hatton
Management
Adolph Rupp's Kentucky Basketball Title Run
By CLAY LATIMER, FOR INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 11/09/2011 01:35 PM ET
Rupp took over the University of Kentucky team in 1930 and stayed 42 years with the Wildcats, whose new season starts Friday night. AP View Enlarged Image
Adolph Rupp was a high school basketball coach in 1930 when he sat down to interview for the University of Kentucky job.
Asked why he should get it over 70 other candidates, the 29-year-old Kansas native didn't miss a beat: "Because I'm the best damned coach in the nation."'
That claim turned out right.
In 42 years at Kentucky, Rupp won 879 games, four national championships and 27 Southeastern Conference titles. His Wildcats also set an NCAA record by winning 129 straight home games.
A master of motivation and strategy, he helped revolutionize the game with a fast-break attack that was decades ahead of his contemporaries, made the sport a near-religious mania in Kentucky, and helped transform college basketball into a national game.
There were troubles, too, especially in 1952, when his Wildcats were put on probation for a year. Rupp also was criticized for taking too long to integrate the team.
But before John Wooden, Dean Smith, Bobby Knight and Mike Krzyzewski, there was Adolph Rupp, the Baron of the Bluegrass.
In Front
Rupp's Keys
Fourth (behind Bob Knight, Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith) in total victories by a men's NCAA Division I college coach, winning 876 games.
Ranks second among all coaches in all-time winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee.
C.M. Newton, a former Kentucky player and athletic director, as well as Alabama and Vanderbilt coach, told IBD: "When I think of the founders of modern basketball, I think of Adolph Rupp. He saw basketball on a whole different level. He was a pioneer in just about everything related to basketball. Alabama football is what I think of when I think of Kentucky basketball. And when I think about Bear Bryant, I think about Adolph Rupp."
Born of 19th-century immigrants in southeast Kansas, Rupp (1901-77) grew up on a farm and attended a one-room schoolhouse. He played at the University of Kansas for legendary coach Phog Allen, who had an office down the hall from basketball's inventor, James Naismith.
Rupp spent much of his time studying the techniques of those two mentors. Later he would create offensive styles and defensive sets that had never been used.
After graduating in 1923, Rupp coached high school basketball in Burr Oak, Kan., for a year before moving on to Freeport, Ill., where he won 80% of his games.
After Kentucky hired him, Rupp was an instant success.
The Wildcats had never scored more than 44 points in the 27 seasons before he arrived. They scored 67 in his debut.
The next morning, a newspaper account noted that a new brand of basketball had come to Blue Grass country. Rupp compiled a 20-5 record in his first two years, then won the SEC title in the league's first season, 1932-33.
"He was tough to play against. He beat the heck out of teams. He took no prisoners,'' said Hugh Coy, a member of the undefeated 1953-54 Kentucky team.
Within years of Rupp's landing, basketball took its place next to coal, horses and bourbon as cultural icons in Kentucky. On winter nights, citizens from Rabbit Hash to Bowling Green huddled around radios to listen to Wildcat games.
"You could see lights in homes all across the state as you flew over Kentucky,'' said Vernon Hatton, an All-American on the Wildcats' 1958 national championship team.
Peace And Triumph
After World War II, Rupp emerged as the nation's premier college coach. He won his first two national titles in 1948 and 1949 with the Alex Groza-led Fabulous Five, captured a third championship in 1951 and the fourth in 1958.
"It was like watching a symphony. He's the reason Kentucky basketball is what it is,'' Coy said.
After losing to Ohio State on Jan. 2, 1943, Rupp started a home-court winning streak that didn't end until a 59-58 loss to Georgia Tech 12 years later.
Afterward, Rupp told his depressed team: "From this time until history is no longer written, you will be remembered as the team that broke that string. Even if you go on to win the NCAA championship, you must carry this scar with you the rest of your lives."
The prospect of defeat haunted Rupp. He once expressed his intensity with two takes:
So nervous was he before games, he felt like he had lye in his stomach. When an opponent scored against the Cats, his heart bled.
"He's the most competitive man who ever coached,'' Hatton said. "One night Alabama scored 100 points against us. He told us if he'd been a player in that game, he would've tried to eat the ball before a team scored 100 against him.''
Rupp sometimes ordered the Wildcats back on the court after the crowd left in order to correct mistakes made in the game.
Serious Sweat
Practices were sacred to Rupp, who drilled his players without letup. The sessions started at 3:30 p.m. and ended at 5, and every drill followed a rigid schedule.
There was no talk, no laughter, no clowning, and Rupp got after any player who performed poorly.
Players repeated the same 10 offensive plays until they became an automatic part of their games.
His assistants charted every pass, every shot, every move. After one practice, Rupp reported that his team had handled the ball 3,308 times and made five mistakes.
Red Auerbach, the great Boston Celtics coach, once said he would rather watch Kentucky practice than see most teams play.
Said Coy: "He practiced for perfection."
Rupp did enjoy the fame. Photos of him with President Truman, Bob Hope and other celebrities lined his office walls. He walked onto the court after the last bar of the national anthem for dramatic effect.
"If anyone had a camera, he'd follow them around to make sure they took a picture of him," Hatton said.
When a point-shaving scandal hit college basketball in 1950, Rupp declared, "Gamblers couldn't get at our players with a 10-foot pole.'' But some of his players were implicated, and Kentucky was punished in the 1952-53 season, forced to sit out tournament play.
In the 1966 national title game, an all-black lineup from Texas Western beat the all-white Wildcats, a monumental game that left Rupp with an image as the face of segregated basketball.
His fans point out that he coached black players in high school, coached against college teams with black players, and recruited a black athlete the same year Bryant recruited his first at Alabama.
"Coach Rupp may have been a lot of different things — demanding, overbearing — but one thing I know he was not was a racist,'' Newton said. "He would have integrated the program at Kentucky had the rest of the conference been willing to go along. Mississippi State won a league championship and couldn't play against a team with black players. "Coach Rupp would've adjusted. One of the things about coach Rupp and coach Bryant was their ability to adjust to the modern athlete, the different standards, the different styles of play.''
In 1967, Rupp became college basketball's all-time winningest coach when Kentucky beat Notre Dame 81-73. His 772nd victory moved him past his former coach, Allen.
The Twilight
After retiring in 1972, Rupp became president of the Memphis Tams of the American Basketball Association and vice chairman of the board for the Kentucky Colonels, another ABA team.
He died at age 76 in Lexington on a December night in 1977 when Kentucky defeated his alma mater at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kan. That game was promoted as Adolph Rupp Night.
"It took us five or so years for me to know how much we loved the guy,'' Hatton
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