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    Hero from another era passed

    I got this in an E-Mail today I have an opinion BUT


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


    Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

    #2
    God bless that man!!!

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      #3
      Salutes.

      He passed on August 20, 2008.

      Hero none the less.

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        #4
        This story, brought to the big screen on the film We Were Soldiers, is one of my favorites. Maj Freeman lived the code of "no one left behind" and risked his life over and over.

        It took until 2001 for him to be recognized for what he sacrificed that day, not that he was in it for the recognition.

        God Bless him and may his story be told over and over.

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          #5
          Wow great story, God bless

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            #6
            Wow... That's a hero. God bless you sir.

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              #7
              A salute to an American Hero.. God Speed Sir..

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                #8
                That is a heck of a story

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                  #9
                  God Bless him! Rest in peace Sir!

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                    #10
                    Awesome!!!!

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                      #11
                      Garry Owen Sir and God's speed.

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                        #12
                        Some of the greatest heros go unheard of due to media scams...

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by KeeganNotSansaba View Post
                          Some of the greatest heros go unheard of due to media scams...
                          So true...

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                            #14
                            Helluva' friend right there...He take's it seriously...God rest his soul.

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                              #15
                              God bless him!

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