Trip Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Ed Freeman You're an 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 halfway 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, 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 last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho. May God rest his soul... I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing. Medal of Honor Winner - Ed Freeman! Just wished our American media would have told us. This is someone they should have reminded us of when he passed on. Link to comment
Granny Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Thanks Trip. Wasn't aware of the story. May our friend and hero "too tall" rest in peace. Link to comment
gramma lois Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Wow Trip - I got chills reading this memorial piece. God bless this dear soul as he continues on into glory!! Link to comment
Trip Posted April 10, 2009 Author Share Posted April 10, 2009 Wow Trip - I got chills reading this memorial piece. God bless this dear soul as he continues on into glory!! I'm adding this because it says so much more.... http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp Link to comment
zzelle Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 i did not know about that gentlemen thanks for sharing Link to comment
Josephine Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 ...Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho. He died in August 2008, not last Wednesday... Link to comment
PoGo Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 He died in August 2008, not last Wednesday... Josephine, this is an old email that is recirculating, and facts weren't updated before posting. I'm sure the error wasn't intentional. Link to comment
Josephine Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Josephine, this is an old email that is recirculating, and facts weren't updated before posting. I'm sure the error wasn't intentional. I just wanted to clarify when he died for those who perhaps thought it was last Wednesday. Link to comment
jakesnana Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Thank you Trip for bringing this to my attention. What an awesome hero, I am humbled. Link to comment
sassenach Posted May 7, 2009 Share Posted May 7, 2009 Thankyou Trip for letting us know about Freeman. Indeed, we need to be reminded of who the real heros are, these days. Link to comment
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