Courage and Hero's

-

Paladin06

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jan 19, 2010
Messages
1,027
Reaction score
160
Location
East Valley, AZ USA
You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the
Central Highlands of Viet Nam .


It's November 11, 1967.
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 Air
Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho ..


May God Bless and Rest His Soul.



I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure
seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods and the bickering of
congress over Health Reform.


Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman


Shame on the American media !!!


Now ... YOU pass this along Honor this real
American.

 
-
Back
Top