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Old Sep 02, 2008, 09:26 AM
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This is a true hero ...

Once they were Soldiers....Ed Freeman RIP

You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in
the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray, 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 Medi-Vac 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 a 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 yesterday at the age of 80,
in Boise, ID......May God rest his soul.....

Last edited by Troy; Sep 02, 2008 at 09:42 AM. Reason: fix formatting and try to fix typo in Title

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Old Sep 02, 2008, 09:50 AM
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a true HERO!!

thank you for sharing this hon.
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Old Sep 02, 2008, 03:21 PM
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What a wonderful person
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Old Nov 11, 2008, 11:38 AM
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Hoorah and God Speed.
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Old Nov 11, 2008, 01:48 PM
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Thank you, Troy.

There are far too many people who are not aware of the valor of our men and women who serve their country...

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Old Nov 11, 2008, 04:52 PM
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HUA!

My younger son is an Army Chinook pilot. He's flies missions that put his life on the line, for the rest.

Heard, Understood, Acknowledged! HUA!
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