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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 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 Wednesday at the
age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his
soul.....
I
bet you didn't hear about this
hero's
passing,
but we sure were told a whole
bunch
about some Hip-Hop Coward
beating
the *** out of his
"girlfriend"
Shame
on
the American
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