- 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 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 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 Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods , Freaking Gun rights and the bickering of congress over OBAMA Care or balancing the budget.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman- Shame on the media !!!
- Now... YOU pass this along.
- Honor this real American hero.
- Please!
Boating; Captain Manny Lee and Corazon Frisbee!
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