FokaiCombatUnit:TrueHeroEdFreeman

 

THIS  man is a true hero. Not some over paid athlete or actor. A  real person having done real courageous things.  
    

     
   

 You’re a  19
year old kid. 

You’re  critically wounded and dying in the jungle in  the Ia Drang Valley.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 unarmed 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
last Wednesday at  the age of 80, in   Boise  , Idaho  .

May  God 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.
. .

 

 

 

Medal  of Honor Winner

Ed  Freeman

 

November  11, 1965. 

LZ   X-ray ,   Vietnam  .