Huey Medal of Honor pilot dies.
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Huey Medal of Honor pilot dies.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway. John Wayne
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 knowthis is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of 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 Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80,
in Boise, ID.
May God rest his soul.
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Since the
Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red bloodedAmerican you know.
THANKS AGAIN ED
FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.
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Ed Freeman
RIP
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 knowthis is the day.
Then, over the machine gun noise, you faintly hear that sound of 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 Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80,
in Boise, ID.
May God rest his soul.
Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Since the
Media didn't give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red bloodedAmerican you know.THANKS AGAIN ED
FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.
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Already covered here
But...the original thread said
Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80,
On August 20, 2008, Ed Freeman passed away. He was 80 years old.
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The sources I find all say 20 August 2008 as well.
Here is a link to his obituary in the Idaho Statesman, published 22 August 2008.
Ed Freeman Obituary: Ed Freeman?s Obituary by the Idaho Statesman.
Yes, the two blogs that have the exact text you quoted are wrong on the date.
Here is a link to his obituary in the Idaho Statesman, published 22 August 2008.
Ed Freeman Obituary: Ed Freeman?s Obituary by the Idaho Statesman.
Yes, the two blogs that have the exact text you quoted are wrong on the date.
