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« on: December 02, 2010, 09:11:47 PM » |
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I received this in an email and thought I should pass it on. I don't know how new or old it is, but it moved me.
Courage.
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.
Medal 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 Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over Health Reform.
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
Shame on the American media !!!
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« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2010, 10:12:11 PM » |
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wow.  that's courage. |
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« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2010, 01:54:38 AM » |
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Only a few things wrong with the OP's post. Ed "Too Tall" Freeman, Major, United States Army (Retired) passed away August 20, 2008. In addition, Lt. General (then Lt Col) Hal Moore, Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), did NOT order the dustoffs to stop coming in. The Medevacs refused due to enemy fire. Moore did close the landing zone to all helicopter traffic at an earlier time due to severe enemy fire but these are two separate incidents. Freeman was the Executive Officer of Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile). He was the only one who volunteered to accompany his Commanding Officer, Lt. Col (then Major) Bruce Crandall in doing what the Medevacs refused to do, rescuing the injured soldiers of Moore's embattled battalion in the Ia Drang Valley. If some of you think this sounds familiar, it was the battle portrayed in the movie "We Were Soldiers Once" which was based on the book Moore co-wrote with Joe Galloway, "We Were Soldiers Once and Young." Freeman was awarded the Medal of Honor in July, 2001 and Crandall was awarded the Medal of Honor in February, 2007 by President George W. Bush.
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« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2010, 04:09:20 AM » |
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What ever the facts are, think of the lives that since 1967 have been changed because of the lives saved. Shortleg[Dave] |
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« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2010, 07:19:09 AM » |
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« Last Edit: December 03, 2010, 07:21:08 AM by musclehead »
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'in the tunnels uptown, the Rats own dream guns him down. the shots echo down them hallways in the night' - the Boss
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« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2010, 11:31:49 AM » |
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this ones still kicking! Robert 'BOB' Maxwell, home town hero of Bend OR (born in Boise ID) very nice gentleman, and potatoe masher smotherer. http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/2865/maxwell-robert-d.php |
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'in the tunnels uptown, the Rats own dream guns him down. the shots echo down them hallways in the night' - the Boss
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« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2010, 12:43:21 PM » |
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The intention of the Op stinks. It takes a courageous action and the reward received, sex it up a bit then in the last sentence lays down some hate on one's favorite bitch. Sorry Capt Freeman of you being used as a foil in such a manner.
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« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2010, 08:23:39 PM » |
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