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 fireanyway.
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 Recipient,Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air
Force, died last
Wednesday at the age of 70, inBoise, Idaho.
May God Bless and Rest His Soul.
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure
seen a whole
bunch aboutLindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over
Health Reform.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the American media !!!
Now... YOU pass this along to YOUR
mailing list. Honor this real American.
Please.
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