OT: There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.

[mattola]

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”​

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

[Comeds]

lol first of all thats a great video. 2nd, I have seen many many dog human reunion videos and I have never seen that one. I wonder if ran away because of how the owner spelled his name.

 

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[forty_three]

 

[Loco2]

Teen Wolf was good. I don't know if it was THAT good.

 

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Teen Wolf was good. I don't know if it was THAT good.

Hey, he was robbed of an Oscar nomination for Doc Hollywood...

 

[mattola]

 

[Comeds]

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Thats really cool.

Side note - what are the odds you find a bear living under your house and his name is Berry?

 

[thedddd]

 

[forty_three]

A drop in the bucket to be sure, but kudos nonetheless. Unfortunately, not everyone is in a position to sell their car (at a loss) and not immediately have to use that money to survive.

 

[forty_three]

Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission

Researchers say woman treated for neuroblastoma as a child is longest known survivor after having CAR T-cell therapy

www.theguardian.com

 

[mattola]

 

[mattola]

Could use someone like Mr. Rogers right about now

 

[mattola]

You're a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam .
Its November 14, 1965 . 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 Army, died at the age of 81 Aug 20th 2008, in Boise, Idaho.