Korndogg
02-05-2009, 10:34 PM
Ed Freeman...
A True Hero'
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically
wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang
Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray, 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 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 1/2 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, 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 August at the
age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....
(Oh yeah,Paul Newman died that day too. I guess you knew
that --
He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman.)
A True Hero'
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically
wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang
Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray, 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 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 1/2 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, 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 August at the
age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....
(Oh yeah,Paul Newman died that day too. I guess you knew
that --
He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman.)