Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The plane had blown an engine over the northern Arabian Sea, and the lead pilot, Lt. Miroslav “Steven” Zilberman, had to make lightning-quick decisions.
The E-2C Hawkeye, returning from a mission in Afghanistan, was a few miles out from the Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier. Zilberman, 31, was a veteran U.S. Navy pilot who had flown many times in the Middle East with the Hawkeye, a turbo-prop aircraft loaded with radar equipment.
The starboard propeller shut down, causing the plane to become unstable and plunge. Zilberman ordered his three crew mates, including the co-pilot, to bail. He manually held the plane as steady as possible so they could jump.
“He held the plane level for them to do so, despite nearly uncontrollable forces. His three crewmen are alive today because of his actions,” Navy Rear Adm. Philip S. Davidson wrote to Zilberman’s parents.
Zilberman went down with the aircraft on March 31. The 1997 graduate of Bexley High School was declared dead three days later, his body lost at sea.
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A copy of the medal also was given to his parents – Boris Zilberman and his wife, Anna Sokolov – who live in the Eastmoor area of Columbus.“Now we have unbelievable pain,” Sokolov said this week. “He was our one and only son.”
After an April 8 memorial service in Norfolk and through conversations with fellow officers and friends, Zilberman’s parents have learned how highly regarded their son was.
“He saved three lives. He’s a hero,” his mother said.
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Zilberman had planned to go on to study medicine and hoped to become an emergency-room doctor. Sokolov said she learned that he spent his spare time reading organic-chemistry books.He was about to take a new assignment in Pensacola, Fla., as a flight instructor. Rear Adm. Davidson, in his letter to Zilberman’s parents, said they should be proud of what their son did. Zilberman’s crew mates, he said, owe their lives to him.
“I know they will never forget him,” Davidson wrote. “I will remember him forever.”
Got something in your eye?
Something to keep in mind, next time you’re feeling like your life is intolerable because the line at the coffee shop is a little bit long and slow-moving.
This generation coming up, I tell ya. It’s enough to drive all hope for the future of humanity from the very marrow of your bones…and then you hear of stuff like this. And all kinds of questions just naturally explode in your noggin. Did people respect this guy’s enormous rock-hard wheelbarrow balls while he was still among us. What would I do in a situation like that, and is there a way to find out.
To the last of those questions, I’m pretty sure the answer is a negatori. You just have to pray. The answer to the others is a big fat I-don’t-know.
Godspeed, noble warrior.
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It’s refreshing to know that men like that still exist. This individual may have been lost at sea, but the same spirit that animated him, lives on in countless other military personnel still serving.
What bothers me is that the people who really need to hear stories like this, never do. They’re too busy whining about what a “waste of money” the military is and how our troops are just a bunch of bloodthirsty mercenaries anyway.
- cylarz | 04/26/2010 @ 00:06[…] MK Freeberg Heroic Navy pilot saves three lives; sacrifices his own […]
- Cassy Fiano | 04/26/2010 @ 06:21Noble warrior indeed, Morgan.
Good on you for posting, can never get too much of these stories.
Thank you Lt. Zilberman and to his parents also for raising such a MAN.
- tim | 04/26/2010 @ 13:19