OT..but something to think about!

Ed Freeman
Let's just suppose 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 t he 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.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul.....
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's
passing, but we sure were told a whole
bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward
beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"
cid:X.MA1.1237815483@aol.com
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Shame on the American Media

 

That waz just great! Very glad you posted that.
Pontiac Slim

 

God bless the true heroes...

 

Ditto. Lest we forget.

Conicidentally, I was reading about Chaplains as MOH recipients this morning in a VFW mag. Being unarmed in a time like that is pretty wild.

 

i haven't heard of it until now ,i'm glad you posted this

the media sucks..we know all about Brittney Spears and Paris Hilton , actually TOO much

 

condolences to his loved ones.. thank you for your service ..
godspeed capt. too tall!

 

Great post!!

 

Lest we forget. . .RIP

 

Lost my gramps last year ..WW2 vet decorated..Utah Beach survivor..
never bitched one time about what he saw and what he had to do..never bragged about his abilities at war either..
These people deserve all our respect..and then some

All gave some................Some gave all

God bless all you soldiers....thank you for your sevice

 

That sent chills down my spine.

P.S. Your observation on todays media is right on.

 

Wow. A true hero. It is a shame he passed without any media coverage. American TV networks should be ashamed of themselves.
Thanks for posting this.

 

one of the Chrome Czars posted it on their board the other day. Yeah, chills.

 

There's a little more to the Ed Freeman story than what's been posted here... Have a look:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

The man lived 80 years in the greatest country on earth, was a vet of 3 wars, a real life hero, and one hell of a guy!

I can not feel sadness for someone who lived such an amazing and full life, I can only hope to be half as lucky when the time of my passing comes.

To Major Ed Freeman, and all of the troops that keep our country free, I offer the following...

A cold beer
A hot woman
And a hearty salute!



R.I.P. Major Freeman

 

You guys think you are tough? Try looking a war veteran in the eyes and thank him for all he has done for your country and your freedom.I can,t do it without tearing up and losing my calm.....I can,t finish what I really want to say.The soldiers who were on the front lines and actually fought are the real men and the real heroes.

 

A true hero indeed...God speed!!

 

great post, gods speed ed ........

 

Now he gets to fly his Last Trip ! RIP !
Thank you for all you have done to bring our soldiers back home !
God Bless ALL the Men & Women that put their lives on the line for our country !
NEVER FORGET !

 

Thank you for posting this. RIP Ed. vic

 

May he rest in peace, he did a great thing without a doubt.

To me its not what you did in a war, but the fact you were there, my dad was in veitnam 66-67, he was a duece & a half driver but i still have as much respect for him as i do an infantry man.

 

That should have been on Paul Harvey. He always had good soldier stories.

 

That's a different generation there that gave everything and never asked for anything in return. I think a lot of it has to do with them growing up in the depression. They never had anything and didn't know any better. But their sense of honor, duty, and country will probably never be seen again.

 

God bless and God speed to a true hero.

 

Wow! Big brass ones!

Thank God there were, (and are) guy's who just go do what needs done. I'll bet he's in good company now.

 

Hal Moore, the commanding officer during the Ia Drang battle in 1965, wrote a great book about it called "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young". You simply cannot read it without crying. These were remarkable men, and most of them were young draftees who fought and died for each other. In other words, they were real Americans. Sadly, too much of our society has forgotten these men, and instead focus their admiration on "celebrities", instead of people of "character". We've grown soft as a nation, and now we're on a path to socialism that will soon overwhelm us unless another group of valiant men step up and put a stop to it. Perhaps the next group of men whose passing will bring remembrance of their valor will be those whose blood was shed here, on American soil, in order to reclaim our nation. I hope not. RIP Mr. Freeman.

 

God Love an American Vet

 

What is crazy is that I just recorded and watched "We Were Soldiers" in the middle of the night, too sick to go to sleep. I realized about halfway through that it was based on a book I had read. Haunting stuff.

I went to see the traveling Vietnam Memorial when it came through our town about two years ago. I made it to about the fifth panel before I started crying. You think your tough, try facing that wall and putting faces to the names.

We owe our soldiers more than a debt of gratitude, and far more than what our government will ever give them.

To Ed, and to you all, be it the last of the WWII vets, Korea, Vietnam, all the police actions, both Iraq wars, and Afghanistan, thank you so very much. I am humbled and honored to be in your debt.

 

Salute, and Godspeed.

 

Great story. May he r.i.p.

It seems like now too often you just hear all the bad things people do and not all the good things people do. I have a really hard time watching the news. Your story of Ed reminds me of my uncle.

I have lived in the Chicago area since 1978 but I come from Elizabethtown, Ky. In December my uncle passed away from cancer. He wasn't a good guy, he was a great guy. My mom and dad grew up in a rural farm area in Kentucky. In 1976 my grandfather was killed in a farming accident. It took the paramedics over a hour to get there. This really destroyed my uncle.

My uncle decided to start a local volunteer fire department in 1979 because he never wanted to see anything like this ever happen to another person again. Until his passing he served as the chief. He worked as a local tractor mechanic but he spent every spare second of his life to helping others. So many times he rushed out of bed in the middle of the night to pull a person out of a burning house and then had to go to work the next morning. He never complained about it. It's what he wanted to do even though he never received a dime for it. He knew it was his job.

I am not trying to steal the light from Ed. Thank god for the heroes like him. It's just too often people don't say thanks to our heroes until they are gone. The funeral for my uncle was incredible. Hundreds and hundred from counties away to show up. On the way to the cemetery there were cars lined up for miles with people standing in the rain saluting as the hurst drove by. It was touching. I just wish more people would have shown their appreciation when he was alive.

So Ed Freeman, even though we never met. Thank you for all you did. Thank all of you other heroes out there like Ed as well.

 

I cannot look at the Vietnam Memorial. Too many names I know are there. Why do we pay some football player fifty million, when Vietnam and other Vets are homeless? What happened to this country?

 

We lost a True Hero..... Thanks Ed.........