OK I know im missing something obvious...?

hmm.. this is pretty obvious but a lot of people get confused.. Energy has nothing to do with freefall and to use it is pretty much completely wrong b/c it messes your thought process up, if you start a in cl diccussion your teacher would be fine with it.. my cl had one about F=ma affects speed :S.. teacher took a vote and cl was split 50/50 on it.. no matter what if g=constant and 2 objs then both will fall same speed (only gravity is applied.. no other forces).. E only affects what will happen to w/e the obj hits