I just received this in an email and it needs to be posted for the world to see. It has special meaning for me because my husband is a Vietnam era chopper jock. This hero went to his eternal reward on 20 AUG 2008. God rest his soul and thank him for his selfless service.
Ed Freeman
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.
The email's author noted that there was little if any MSM coverage of Mr. Freeman's passing. I'd have to agree.
At least MSNBC covered his story in their 2007 series on MOH winners. Here's a link. A small pittance.
Let's keep his memory and his heroics alive.
My Blog-Bud Lou noted Too Tall's passing last year. The man MOST certainly was a hero and his memory lives.
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