Ruggbutt Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman,died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul..... Imagine 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. Thanks for your service Ed. You were a hero. Quote
FastCargo Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 RIP Ed. We are all lesser now that you have departed. S! Quote
sugarblues Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 Bravo Zulu. It's knowing there's people like that who make life worth living... SB Quote
ONETINSOLDIER Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 ~S~ @ruggbutt, was there a book written about him? I thought Id read all the chopper stories outta nam, and this is one remarkable man, to say the least. Quote
MigBuster Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 A true hero Ed "Too Tall" Freeman - Glad him and snake got the MOH eventually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman ~S~ @ruggbutt, was there a book written about him? I thought Id read all the chopper stories outta nam, and this is one remarkable man, to say the least. Both are immortalised in the film "We Were Soldiers" Quote
Syrinx Posted April 8, 2009 Posted April 8, 2009 RIP. Read the book and you tend to remember certain individuals. Ed was one. S ! Quote
Bulldog Posted April 11, 2009 Posted April 11, 2009 If there is a special place for heros to go when they pass on, Ed is there.... Quote
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