gtemple1 Loc: E. Olympia, WA

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 Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday at the age of 70, in Boise, 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  about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over Health Reform.


Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the media !!!

Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real hero.

Please.

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

I remember a lot of scenes like this one and too many forgotten warriors then and now...

Leon S Loc: Minnesota

Salute

INshooter Loc: Indiana

Wow! Thanks for reminding me of this. What a story....I had forgotten about it, thanks for making me remember. I will pass it on for sure.

gdoro1 Loc: Florida

I don't get this. Major Freeman died in 2008, was US Army. He was portrayed in the Movie "we were Soldiers" and the battle for Ia Drang, the first Airmobile battle. There have been several soldiers who received their MOH many years after they were in action. Not knocking anything, but why this particular story?

RRS Loc: Not sure

What don't you understand?? Please explain what you mean by "this particular story". The story are the facts of life and what happened but at the time I don't recall reading anything in the newspaper or hearing anything on the evening news, about this.

lightcatcher Loc: Farmington, NM (4 corners)

I'm with you on this question.

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gdoro1 Loc: Florida

The story makes it sound like he died yesterday. Plus he wasn't Air Force.
Many other soldiers have performed heroic action since that time. Why this particular story with inaccuracies. I remember it when it happened and when he got the MOH. I knew someone wouldn't get what I was saying, but I like stories to be a little more accurate. If the story was just honoring him, I wouldn't have said anything. But he passed 8 years ago, not yesterday.

gdoro1 Loc: Florida

The story makes it sound like he died yesterday. Plus he wasn't Air Force.
Many other soldiers have performed heroic action since that time. Why this particular story with inaccuracies. I remember it when it happened and when he got the MOH. I knew someone wouldn't get what I was saying, but I like stories to be a little more accurate. If the story was just honoring him, I wouldn't have said anything. But he passed 8 years ago, not yesterday.

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

His angelic protectors were flying with him and he knew they would not let harm come to him. He is now talking old times over with them, I'm sure!

RRS Loc: Not sure

Your right about the inaccuracies in the story. If it was you on the ground I don't think you'd give a damn what branch of the service he was in, just the fact that someone was coming and the hope that it must have given the wounded. Again your right, it didn't happen yesterday, I'm glad that you remembered it. I'm sure that some have forgotten it or maybe never even heard of this. It's a shame that all the pertinent facts are not 100% correct. He passed away 8 years ago but least we not forget and true there have been too many more stories due to the world we live in.

Duggy

Real Hero sorry you haven't learned yet that main stream media is owned by a handful of billionaries. There were 6 oyher media personell who knew and backed up bryan Williams lie. Hillary got called out early, so she had to fess up early. I quit listening to their propaganda years ago. I only hear about their misleading on alternative media.

dragonswing Loc: Pa

I don't think anyone was saying his actions were not honorable. This story has been going the email route for the past decade. Many soldiers have honorable actions that go unnoticed.

jbaird Loc: Coatesville, Pa

Wow. I've never heard that story. Salute to an old soldier.

BobbyT Loc: Southern California

It does not matter when or if not 100% correct, but only that
that it happened. In these days of false idols and gods, we need to remember that this human spirit exists.