Ed Freeman

CaptJ · #1 04-05-2009, 09:56 AM

Here you go Reel...another example of why we get to live the good life, the men who sacrifice for us

Ed Freeman

You're a 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 Winner

Ed Freeman!

Shameon the American Media

Boycott them.

bradford · #2 04-05-2009, 03:26 PM

Thanks for posting Capt J. Ed was a true hero and gentleman.

willy · #3 04-05-2009, 04:16 PM

God bless his soul and give us all a small part of his courage

tsubaki · #4 04-05-2009, 04:34 PM

I had to look into it closer, real hero's are so uncommon.
You will be interested in the whole story.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

willy · #5 04-05-2009, 07:34 PM

A Hero.

Blue_Runner · #6 04-07-2009, 03:57 PM

My hats off to thas man! That very well could have been my dad he rescued, but thank God dad never found himself in that situation. Although he did have some close calls including hitting a land mine while in the back of a truck.

If you find stuff like this inspiring (I sure do) check out Desmond Doss. This guy defines the word hero. He was a medic that refused to carry a weapon, only a small bible he kept on his person. I saw the documentary but I don't remember exactly how many people he rescued on one particular occasion but it was a lot! Under heavy enemy fire he kept going back getting them one by one.

Here is a starting point for anyone interested:
http://desmonddoss.com/