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.
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but
we've sure heard a whole bunch about Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sicko
Sandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.
Shame on the media !!!
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
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.
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but
we've sure heard a whole bunch about Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sicko
Sandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.
Shame on the media !!!
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
