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Title: Ed Freeman
Post by: hornet36 on December 01, 2008, 08:58:33 PM

Wouldn't this make an excellent page in a public school history book?

 Subject: Once They Were Soldiers.....

Ed Freeman

You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the La 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 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, 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 Wednesday
Aug. 20th, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......

May God rest his soul.....

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: glock89 on December 01, 2008, 09:00:44 PM

 :salute :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: macerxgp on December 01, 2008, 09:41:45 PM

 :salute The kind of courage it takes to do that sort of thing hasn't been seen since. May he rest in peace.

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: USRanger on December 01, 2008, 10:29:16 PM

I know different, but that doesn't take away from his courage & actions.  :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: skribetm on December 01, 2008, 11:06:46 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman)

RIP  :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: Getback on December 01, 2008, 11:32:32 PM

Wow! Just amazing.

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: Shane on December 02, 2008, 12:29:19 AM

 :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: grizz441 on December 02, 2008, 02:53:31 AM

Thanks for sharing his story with me.   :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: ColKLink on December 02, 2008, 03:56:04 AM

 :salute, Ed, true hero, his story is on the military channels once in a while, dont miss it. :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: Hawk55 on December 02, 2008, 05:43:23 AM

I'm in awe!  I wonder if I would've had the guts to make ONE trip, let alone 14.  A true hero.   :salute

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: The Fury on December 02, 2008, 06:03:57 AM

Woah truly amazing stuff.

 :salute Ed Freeman

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: Shuffler on December 02, 2008, 07:23:42 AM

God Bless him and his family.

Title: Re: Ed Freeman
Post by: humble on December 02, 2008, 07:42:03 AM

Great story but the medivacs were not waved off they refused direct orders. Only afterward was the LZ shut down and a small 2 ship LZ cut out of the scrub tree's....