Captain Ed Freeman - Medal of Honor recipient - RIP

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.


http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=n8_KZnwx8MTYXM&tbnid=10U7CwvhoUpH5M:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/323/the-vietnam-war-and-mississippi&ei=QGMfUtfOMtKs4APSy4GYDg&psig=AFQjCNFzlpnIMf9VpQCrMgnXDpZbSbwjiA&ust=1377875130204990Medal 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 , Freaking Gun rights and the bickering of congress over OBAMA Care or balancing the budget.

A stupid war fought by a lot of good men that were deceived into it... RIP Capt.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

TEOTWAWKI wrote:A stupid war fought by a lot of good men that were deceived into it... RIP Capt.

Yes, and Iraq was no different.

War is a Racket...Smedley Butler...RIP

The Last good war America fought was probably 1812..

Some people just shift into another gear in a crisis. It is not something they consciously do, or weigh the risks......they simply react.

I hope he had a happy life. I sadly knew an individual who pretended he had the medal of honor. It took about 10 years before he was busted, and his reputation and career were ruined. He died a broken man. I never understood his urge to be heroic and get a medal.....in my experience those who act in a crisis situation could care less about a medal.....it simply is hard wired into them. Somebody who is not wired that way thinks a pretend medal wires them differently. The last time I saw him he was sitting in a rural bar at the end of the bar drinking himself to death. He drove his big yellow cadillac into the median of the interstate, and it flipped and his life was over.

Wars have always been started by old men but fought by young men . . . .