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04-16-2009, 06:17 AM
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q82/willyallen/EdFreeman.jpg ED FREEMAN
Medal of Honor Winner Recipient
You're an 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 Med-Evac 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 halfway around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you know 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 unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Med-Evac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Med-Evac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Med-Evacs were ordered not to come.
Ed is coming in 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 otherwise 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.
Link to Article (http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html)
I bet you didn't hear about this true hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend".
Shame on the American Media
Medal of Honor Winner Recipient
You're an 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 Med-Evac 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 halfway around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you know 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 unarmed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because no Med-Evac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Med-Evac, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the Med-Evacs were ordered not to come.
Ed is coming in 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 otherwise 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.
Link to Article (http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html)
I bet you didn't hear about this true hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend".
Shame on the American Media