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Title: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: Grayeagle on July 20, 2009, 06:56:07 PM

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 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 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 and 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, 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 on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID.   May God rest his soul.

-GE (dunno if it's a repost .. sorry if it is, just read this and thought I would share)

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: Die Hard on July 20, 2009, 07:24:29 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: Beefcake on July 20, 2009, 07:29:23 PM

Actually I hate to say this, but Ed Freeman died in August 2008.

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,262121.0.html

According to Snoops.com a group of people manipulated the date of his death to June 25th, 2009, the same day that Michael Jackson died, to make the argument that the media was focusing on Jackson and nothing else.

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

Quite sad IMO, but  :salute to this great man anyway.

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: soda72 on July 20, 2009, 07:45:03 PM

 :salute

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: Die Hard on July 21, 2009, 08:12:36 AM

What a rotten thing to do; misusing this man's legacy.

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: Reschke on July 21, 2009, 10:39:15 AM

WTH!!! That sucks but I do remember seeing this posted maybe via email or in here last year.

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: Maverick on July 21, 2009, 01:58:58 PM

Yep it's been out before. It's a shame that folks have to stoop to this and end up diminishing his exploits in the process.

 :salute and RIP

Title: Re: RIP Ed Freeman
Post by: slimmer on July 21, 2009, 03:54:37 PM

 :salute