A true hero

ED FREEMAN (Medal of Honour)



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 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 Honour Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of

80, in Boise , Indiana ........



May God rest his soul......



I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing , with all the media

obsessed with the death of a pop star



Medal of Honour Winner Ed Freeman!