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, March 25th, 2009 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.
Please pass this around to all those who do not know a real hero passed away this past March and very few heard a thing from the mainstream press. He was not Michael Jackson or Farah Fawcett so he did not "rate" the spotlight. Who do you think made the greater contribution in their lifetime? I was in S. Viet Nam while this battle took place. Fortunately for me, I was in a safe place at the time and not in the same situation. I lost a classmate in that battle. He remains one of my heroes! Keep it real folks!
Jim
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Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID… May God rest his soul.
Per Selous Scout above, a heads up: Ed Freeman died in August 08, and a different version of the email posted here circulated a few months after that, referencing media coverage of "some hip-hop coward beating the crap out of his 'girlfriend'" instead of Jackson and Fawcett. That said, the email's account of Ed Freeman's actions at La Drang is pretty much accurate. See wikipedia.org for details of Ed Freeman's career and his Medal of Honor citation; and see snopes.com for more info on this email about him.
Yep, this man is a real hero. But the scumbags in the media would rather cover the death of a child molester....
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