Missed in the News

[Minstrel]

You're a 19 year old kid, critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in

the La Drang Valley, 11-

14-1965, LZ Xray, Vietnam. Your infantry unit is outnumbered 8 to 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 un-armed Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no

Medi-Vac markings 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 told 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 waiting doctors

and nurses.



And he kept coming back....... 13 more times..... and took over 30 of

you and your buddies out,

who would never have gotten out.



Medal of Honor recipient Ed Freeman died last Wednesday, in Boise,

Idaho, at the age of 80.



Oh yeah, Paul Newman died that day too.



But I guess you knew that. He got a lot more press than Ed Freeman.

[brokenarrow]

WOW.............Paul Newman was a fine actor BUT a true american MOH hero trumps any actor living or dead any time. at least thats the way it SHOULD be in my book.
Rest in Peace Ed Freeman

[willie d]

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.p...,210611.0.html It's been posted here before, but definitely worth being posted again.