Posted: 9/12/2008 12:44:52 PM EDT
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You're an 18 or 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley, 11-14-1965. LZ Xray, 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 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 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 last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise, ID......May God rest his soul..... Semper Fi Ed |
Well deserved dupe....  Edward Freeman, US Army Medal of Honor Vietnam war helicopter pilot dies www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=746348 Posted :: 8/21/2008 1:04:48 PM PDT |
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Interestingly enough, I was talking with Bill Feight, our former president at the Tri-County Sportsmen League in Saline MI, a day before yesterday. He mentioned he was in the Ia Drang in 65. They came in after the battle of X-ray to relieve Hal Moore and his troopers and was on the cross country march to LZ-Albany when they got ambushed. Having studied the RVN conflict, to hear a first hand account of Albany was indeed heartbreaking. That's when the killing really started...God bless Too Tall and Snakeshit....and all who have fought for our freedom....Tom Bougie, Dexter, MI. |
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I posted his MoH citation in the badass thread. hueys are not armored. what he did is the epitome of valor. I'm not going to say that took balls because all he was thinking about was his fellow soldiers lives (I think). That's the most pure example of selfless-ness |