Another Hero Gone

[LimitedRecourse]

(This is a bit late, but I've been busy.)

Courage.

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 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 last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho.

May God Bless and Rest His Soul.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

[Bob]

Thank God for people that think of others before themselves.

Thank you for posting this.

[ssmynkint]

Brotherhood!

[osrb]

Thanks for posting. Far too often we forget hero's of days gone by.

[Babs]

I will say a prayer. Thanks for remembering him to us.

[NewsShooter]

Speechless. Thanks.

[tuffmustang]

I think this is the guy your talking about.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

It says he died in 2008.

[TNBear]

No matter when he passed, he was a true hero. It's too bad that he and his comrades-in-arms risked and lost their lives for squat.

[fishpants]

Apr 26, 2011 19:52:48 GMT -5 TNBear said:

No matter when he passed, he was a true hero.

Definitely. Close family member was a medivac pilot in Viet Nam, shot down a few times, made his way back from behind enemy lines more than once, highly decorated for his duty. He died much later from the madness it put him through.

It's too bad that he and his comrades-in-arms risked and lost their lives for squat.

Squat? They attacked us at the Gulf of Tonkin dammit, those yellowish bastards they...

Lyndon B. Johnson: What I want is somebody that can lay up some plans to trap these guys and whoop the hell out of 'em, that's what I want to do.
Robert McNamara: I'll try and bring something back that will meet that objective.

Okay, so apparently on the orders of LBJ the Secretary of Defense whipped up a false flag "attack" in the Gulf of Tonkin in order to get the US military to "whoop the hell out of 'em." Treason certainly, but "squat"? I'm sure there were still yellowish bastards out there planning fiendish things against our womenfolk and way of life. They coulda thrown rice!

_{Vizzini "never get involved in a land war in Asia"}

[ssmynkint]

Rice, Thai sticks, 333 and STD. Insidious!