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This may have already been posted and I missed it,but just in case it wasn't - -
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, November 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 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 1/2 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 a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no medevac markings are on it.
Ed "Too Tall" Freeman is coming for you. He's not a medevac pilot, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the medevac's were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, they load 2 or 3 of you on board, as they drop off much needed water and ammunition. 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 Sept. 3, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho .
Thanks Ed....... Blue Skies.
You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, November 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 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 1/2 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 a Huey, but it doesn't seem real, because there are no medevac markings are on it.
Ed "Too Tall" Freeman is coming for you. He's not a medevac pilot, so it's not his job, but he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire, after the medevac's were ordered not to come.
He's coming anyway.
And he drops it in, and sits there in the machine gun fire, they load 2 or 3 of you on board, as they drop off much needed water and ammunition. 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 Sept. 3, 2008 at the age of 80, in Boise, Idaho .
Thanks Ed....... Blue Skies.
