You're a 19 year old kid.
You're critically wounded and dying in the
jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , on
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..!!
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 anyway. Even 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..!!
He took about 30 of you and your buddies out
who would never have gotten out.
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died
recently at the age of 80, in Boise , ID
May God Rest His Soul.
Ed Freeman!
Medal of Honor Winner
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Not One Mention |
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by American Media |
Shame on the American Media, A Disgrace..!!
