You're a 19
year old kid.
You are
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 January 15,
2015 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 the thugs Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin,
The gov.
shut down "what difference does it make!!!.)
and the
bickering of congress over Health& OBAMA CARE!
BUT ZIP
ABOUT THE PASSING OF
Medal of
Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the
media !!!
Now... YOU
pass this along.
Honor this
real hero.
Please
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