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This is such an amazing story . . .
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 outnumbered 8–1, and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own Infantry Commander has ordered the Medi-Vac 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 helicopter, and you look up to see an un-armed 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.
He’s coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the 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…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 Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID… May God rest his soul.
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 COUNTRY.
Harry L. Furrey, GS-09, DAF Construction Representative 307-773-3539 307-220-0552
Thank you Ed Freeman, for your selfless actions throughout your life, as I imagine there were many!
In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which depicted the Battle of Ia Drang, Freeman was portrayed by Mark McCracken. This one of my favorite Vietnam War movies!
A gallant man, but he actually died in August, 2008.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp
I will amend the post to reflect the true date. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a true hero....
ReplyDeleteHe was a hero, and my father was there- however, I know several "hero's" today as well. Men that have done what he did and never been lauded for it. Two that will never receive medals. Vietnam was than, this is now. As I say again and again, thank you to all of our vets, and currently fighting men and women.
ReplyDeleteThe fedgov is tryin' to take Wretha down!!! SHTF!!! http://wretha.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-was-right-now-what.html
ReplyDeleteI do not want to take anything away from Too Tall as what he and his pilot went through. See, Ed was only the co-pilot that day and the pilot also was awarded THE MEDAL for the same action, but it was delayed for pussy reasons until G.W. Bush was president and then awarded by him. I was in the Ia Drang during that battle and was able to pick up different reports over my PRC25 radio.
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