Posted by
red will on Thursday, July 09, 2009 2:13:18 PM
- 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 out numbered 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 half way around the world, 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 unarmed 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
in.
But
he's coming anyway.
And
he drops it in, and sits there in a hail of
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 again and again, 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 on
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80 in
Boise, ID. May God rest his
soul.
I'll
bet you didn't hear anything at all from the
media about this hero's passing, but we sure
were told a lot about some hip-hop coward
beating the crap out of his
"girlfriend."
THE
CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR WINNER ED
FREEMAN!
Congressional
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed
Freeman
Since
the Media didn't give him the coverage he
deserves send this to every red blooded American
you know.
THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU
DID
FOR
OUR BOYS AND OUR COUNTRY.
R.I.P