A chain email worth reading..

[Yooformula]

Not sure if this was posted or not but I never read these stupid things or I "nicely" respond to them with the facts but this one checked out and was pretty damm inspiring and impressive imo.



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
Winner Captain Ed Freeman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

[Plum Crazy]

that was taken directly from the IMDB profile of Ed "Too Tall" Freeman


http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0141991/bio

Also, you dont "Win" the Medal of Honor.

[Yooformula]

he was awarded the Medal of Honor, I just copied what was sent but according the story, it is still true even if it was used for the movie. the actions that day still shouldnt be eclipsed by movie text or variations that exist. the story was true. read the link.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

[hrsp]

cool shit!!

[IcePickFreak]

I watch a lot of documentaries and seen one on the battle of la Drang that included Ed Freeman and also the book that the movie was based on, "We Were Soldiers Once... and Young". Not sure what the IMDB link has to do with it since all of it (book, movie) was written to honor and remember his and all the others actions.

On that same not, the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient, and last surviving one from the attack on Pearl Harbor, passed away at 100 years old last week.
Lt. John W. Finn, Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 100 - TWP (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052804477.html)
John W. Finn - Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Finn)

[Yooformula]

Not sure why he posted the imdb link but Lt. Finn is another in a long line of heroes..wow! May they all rest in peace.

[Sophie]

You can read a summary of his story here, without passing it around in a gushing chain letter. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/ed-freeman.htm

And remember, just because there are a few true needles in the haystack of chain letter stories, doesn't mean the next one you happen on is going to be true. Even ths one was written up with extremely manipulative language, designed to hit you in the emotions so you'd pass/post it along.

[Rhiannon]

Dang... I honestly got the chills after reading that. So frickin' motivating! I love my brothers and sisters!