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Title: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: DustyR on April 04, 2009, 10:05:55 AM

You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965, LZ X-ray, 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 ½ 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 an un-armed 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 August 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID ......May God rest his soul.....  :noid :salute

Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday
Post by: oakranger on April 04, 2009, 10:26:16 AM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday
Post by: 1pLUs44 on April 04, 2009, 11:18:00 AM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday
Post by: Dan216TH on April 04, 2009, 11:33:32 AM

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1U_87i8bFA
I think this is a bad idea to post it but what the hell

Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday
Post by: hammer on April 04, 2009, 11:54:16 AM

Ed Freeman died in August '08.

http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html (http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html)

Regards,

Hammer

Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday
Post by: AWwrgwy on April 04, 2009, 11:56:32 AM

Quote from: hammer on April 04, 2009, 11:54:16 AM

Ed Freeman died in August '08, but don't let a little thing like facts get in the way.

http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html (http://www.military.com/news/article/moh-recipient-ed-freeman-dies.html)

Regards,

Hammer

Well it feels like August was just last Wednesday.

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wrongway

Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: ROX on April 04, 2009, 12:59:27 PM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: RoGenT on April 04, 2009, 01:27:02 PM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: Tr1gg22 on April 04, 2009, 01:41:16 PM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: Stixx on April 04, 2009, 06:52:59 PM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: Die Hard on April 05, 2009, 12:27:32 AM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: stodd on April 05, 2009, 02:08:26 AM

Wow, :salute

Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: Coog03 on April 05, 2009, 05:08:16 AM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: 007Rusty on April 06, 2009, 09:32:53 AM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: scot12b on April 06, 2009, 11:42:47 AM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: shppr01 on April 06, 2009, 01:27:02 PM

I Met him in idaho when i lived there He will be missed  :salute

Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: ROX on April 06, 2009, 07:32:17 PM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: 33Vortex on April 06, 2009, 07:34:39 PM

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Title: Re: Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died August 08
Post by: extermino on April 06, 2009, 07:48:36 PM

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