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.
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.
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 Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods
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 Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods
and the bickering of congress over Health Reform.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Now... YOU pass this along.
Honor this real hero.
Please.
2 comments:
Thank you for sharing that amazing selfless story May God bless Captain Freeman's family.
What an incredible human being his act of love and compassion should set the bar for all of us.
Imagine the ripple effect this ONE selfless act had on the ones he saved and their families.
Captain Freeman your an example of what each and everyone of us is capable of.
Your absolutely right the mass hysteria media doesn't report these heroic acts because they'd rather we believe our future is one of selfishness destructive acts such as Lindsay Logan and tiger woods.
Imagine if we all governed our selfs with the same love and compassion Captain Freeman did every day.
Just think how amazing this world would be because each of us can.
Freeman died on August 20, 2008 - A great American and patriot - God rest his soul...
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