not good enough to make the headlines...

[FLOTSOM]

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 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 heard  a whole bunch  about WhitneyHouston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sicko Sandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.
 
 
Shame on the media !!!


Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman
   

[jeep00]

And like his Medal of Honor, it would be years before anyone would know. He died in 2008.

These things are all very awsome and heroic, and I agree that more needs to be done for these type of people, but at least note the fact that it would not have been "last Wednesday" that he died but actually Augut of 2008. Not that Wikipedia is anythingg more than truth by consensus, of course.

Freeman died on August 20, 2008 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.[2] He was buried with full military honors at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise.[4]

In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which depicted the Battle of Ia Drang, Freeman was portrayed by Mark McCracken.[2] The post office in Freeman's hometown of McLain, Mississippi, was renamed the "Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office" in March 2009.[4]

[FLOTSOM]

And like his Medal of Honor, it would be years before anyone would know. He died in 2008.

These things are all very awsome and heroic, and I agree that more needs to be done for these type of people, but at least note the fact that it would not have been "last Wednesday" that he died but actually Augut of 2008. Not that Wikipedia is anythingg more than truth by consensus, of course.

Freeman died on August 20, 2008 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.[2] He was buried with full military honors at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise.[4]

In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which depicted the Battle of Ia Drang, Freeman was portrayed by Mark McCracken.[2] The post office in Freeman's hometown of McLain, Mississippi, was renamed the "Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office" in March 2009.[4]

hahaha you caught it too soon!!!!!

i figured that a conversation would start out first and then i would mention that oh by the way he passed away 2 years ago..... hahahaha

wanted to poke the bear a bit by harrasing the younger people here but also to take a moment to remind people, after all the talk and media noise of witless houston, of who the truly news worthy people in life are...

[mthrockmor]

 

Boo

[RichardDarkwood]

What about the 369th Harlem Hellfighters?????


One story about this unit has stuck with me for a long time.

The most celebrated man in the 369th was Pvt. Henry Lincoln Johnson, a former Albany, New York, rail station porter, who earned the nickname "Black Death" for his actions in combat in France. In May 1918 Johnson and Pvt. Needham Roberts fought off a 24-man German patrol, though both were severely wounded. After they expended their ammunition, Roberts used his rifle as a club and Johnson battled with a bolo knife. Johnson was the first American to receive the Croix de Guerre awarded by the French government. By the end of the war, 171 members of the 369th were awarded the Legion of Honor.[1]

Photographs show that the 369th carried the New York Regimental flag overseas. The French government awarded the regiment the Croix de Guerre with silver star for the taking of Séchault. It was pinned to the colors by General Lebouc at a ceremony in Germany, December 13, 1918.

[RichardDarkwood]

Hollywood should do a movie about these guys.

[Shuffler]

Never forget!

[dedalos]

Hello,

Been telling you for ever in these boards.  Don;t shame the media though.  They only show us what we want to see.  So, shame on us for making a performer more important than people that save lives.

[Slate]

Hello,

Been telling you for ever in these boards.  Don;t shame the media though.  They only show us what we want to see.  So, shame on us for making a performer more important than people that save lives.

  This is true, the fault lies with us. Most hide their heads in their TV's (or Monitors) and don't get involved. The Tyrants in Power love to coddle their sheep and feed them little bits just enough to keep the subservient.
    Evil triumph's when Good People do nothing. 

[Selino631]

 

[PR3D4TOR]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,245546.0.html

http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

[FLOTSOM]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,245546.0.html

http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html?ESRC=army-a.nl

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

my reference was to the local and leading type of news not military specific type of news. witless houston tied up news papers magazines tv ect for how long? and what was her greatest unselfish and selfless accomplishment? and now without doubt for the rest of our lives every year someone will make it a point to mark the day of her drug induced passing as so great loss to all mankind that it must be memorialized and we the sheeple must  be reminded of it.....but yet a true hero's passing goes unnoticed and unremembered by the masses...just wanted to poke some fun at those to young to realize what is and what isnt really important these days.

[PR3D4TOR]

That military.com article was copyrighted by the Idaho Statesman. Ed Freeman was an Idaho resident. So at least local/state media took notice.

[Penguin]

He shouldn't have been in the helo, just one nut alone would put it over capacity.  Though I usually cast a dark pall over any actions in war, this is an exception to the rule.  He saved dozens of lives and fully deserved that medal.  It's just a shame that we got embroiled in that meat grinder in the first place.

-Penguin

[FLOTSOM]

He shouldn't have been in the helo, just one nut alone would put it over capacity.  Though I usually cast a dark pall over any actions in war, this is an exception to the rule.  He saved dozens of lives and fully deserved that medal.  It's just a shame that we got embroiled in that meat grinder in the first place.

-Penguin

pen......HUSH child, the adults are speaking.