scoutsout80
07-29-2009, 09:42 AM
Ed Freeman
May God Bless his family and those like him ...
Ed Freeman
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 MediVac 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 1/2 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, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't
seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his
job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after
the Medi-Vacs 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 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 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 ...
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were
told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of
his "girlfriend"
Medal of Honor Recipient
Ed Freeman!
Shame on the American Media
May God Bless his family and those like him ...
Ed Freeman
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 MediVac 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 1/2 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, and you look up to see an un-armed Huey, but it doesn't
seem real, because no Medi-Vac markings are on it.
Ed Freeman is coming for you. He's not Medi-Vac, so it's not his
job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after
the Medi-Vacs 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 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 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 ...
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were
told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of
his "girlfriend"
Medal of Honor Recipient
Ed Freeman!
Shame on the American Media