Freedom

[TheKingsDeer.com]

Freedom isn't Free
On this 4th of July....
Please take the time to read:

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 media !!! Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real hero.

 

[Daver]

Just an FYI...there really was a man named Ed Freeman and he did receive the Medal of Honor for his heroics, BUT...this story does get recirculated every so often, sometimes with a little bit of fiction to go along with it.

For instance, Mr. Freeman actually passed away 5 years ago in 2008, the actual date of the famous battle that he rescued people from was in 1965, not 1967, etc.

However, the point of the story still stands, this man really was a hero and yes, today's news "stories" are often filled with pure crap about who is having whose illegimate child and/or who is going back into drug rehab, etc, as opposed to highlighting real people that actually accomplished something.

 

[TheKingsDeer.com]

Thanks, appreciate the update.

I hope and pray the message still hits home! I figured it would get fixed on this board. Pretty sharp group!

God Bless and Pray for our Soldiers on this 4th of July.

 

[AZHunter]

Ed Freeman was one of the best.

Here's a true story from the Central Highlands (near Dak To) of Vietnam on November 11, 1967: similar situation; an entire company (Task Force Black) surrounded after walking into a large ambush. An NVA grenade is thrown in the middle of the wounded pile. PFC John A. Barnes, 19, throws himself on it, saving countless lives. One of the seriously wounded lives saved: my dad, who held John in his arms as he died, screaming for his mom. PFC John A. "Combat" Barnes; CMH; November, 11, 1967.

God bless them all!