Remembering Ed

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Harley Reich
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 MedEvac 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 seen a whole bunch about Lindsay Lohan, Tiger Woods and the bickering of congress over Health Reform.

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman. Shame on the American media!

HR
 
RIP.

Thanks for telling us.
 
Thanks for the update. The information came to me from the local military-community relations organization. I assumed it to be current-valid.

HR
 
Lawreston said:
Thanks for the update. The information came to me from the local military-community relations organization. I assumed it to be current-valid.

HR
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So instead of "shame on the American media' it should be shame on the local military-community relations organization for not being in touch with real issues?
 
Shame on all of us, for politicizing the deeds of a courageous hero.
 
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Regardless of whether or not the timing is accurate, it seems like the story mostly is judging from the Medal of Honor citation.

Stories like this seem to have more accuracy than those about Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, and Tiger Woods. And we should be paying more attention to these stories rather than to the drivel that the media puts out about these dysfunctional people who have no place in society.
 
Can you imagine, lying in the jungle, dying, and thinking that there is no hope for rescue...and then you hear that chopper?
 
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