Posted: 5/7/2010 10:02:31 AM EDT
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> 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 Michael > Jackson and Tiger Woods. > > > Medal of Honor > Winner Captain Ed Freeman > > > > Shame on the corrupt American media !!! > > > Now.....YOU pass this along to YOUR > mailing list. Honor this real American. > |
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I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. WEEKS of coverage for a dead child molester, but I didn't hear a word about this guy's death. I think I would have remembered even a little bit about the story from 2 years ago if it made the news. First I've heard of it, thank you. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. WEEKS of coverage for a dead child molester, but I didn't hear a word about this guy's death. I think I would have remembered even a little bit about the story from 2 years ago if it made the news. First I've heard of it, thank you. Same here. In the movie We Were Soldiers is the pilot with the call sign Snake Shit based on this hero? I am fairly certain that in the movie Snake Shit kept flying out the wounded even though they were ordered not to land cause of heavy fire. |
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I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. WEEKS of coverage for a dead child molester, but I didn't hear a word about this guy's death. I think I would have remembered even a little bit about the story from 2 years ago if it made the news. First I've heard of it, thank you. Same here. In the movie We Were Soldiers is the pilot with the call sign Snake Shit based on this hero? I am fairly certain that in the movie Snake Shit kept flying out the wounded even though they were ordered not to land cause of heavy fire. No that was Lieutenant Colonel Bruce P. Crandall's call sign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_P._Crandall |
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I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. WEEKS of coverage for a dead child molester, but I didn't hear a word about this guy's death. I think I would have remembered even a little bit about the story from 2 years ago if it made the news. First I've heard of it, thank you. Same here. In the movie We Were Soldiers is the pilot with the call sign Snake Shit based on this hero? I am fairly certain that in the movie Snake Shit kept flying out the wounded even though they were ordered not to land cause of heavy fire. You're thinking of Ed "Too Tall" Freeman. |
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I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. WEEKS of coverage for a dead child molester, but I didn't hear a word about this guy's death. I think I would have remembered even a little bit about the story from 2 years ago if it made the news. First I've heard of it, thank you. Same here. In the movie We Were Soldiers is the pilot with the call sign Snake Shit based on this hero? I am fairly certain that in the movie Snake Shit kept flying out the wounded even though they were ordered not to land cause of heavy fire. this is exactly what I first thought of. Thanks OP for posting. |
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Quoted: Thanks for clearing that up for me.Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunch about Michael Jackson and Tiger Woods. WEEKS of coverage for a dead child molester, but I didn't hear a word about this guy's death. I think I would have remembered even a little bit about the story from 2 years ago if it made the news. First I've heard of it, thank you. Same here. In the movie We Were Soldiers is the pilot with the call sign Snake Shit based on this hero? I am fairly certain that in the movie Snake Shit kept flying out the wounded even though they were ordered not to land cause of heavy fire. You're thinking of Ed "Too Tall" Freeman. |
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Here's Wiki's list of Medal of Honor recipients.
ETA: I just found a Canadian that was a recipient from the Vietnam War. His story is here. |
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In the movie We Were Soldiers the MedEvac helicopters turned away from the LZ due to the intense ground fire and left Bruce Crandall and Ed Freeman to perform the mission of evacuating the wounded from the battle in the Ia Drang. Both men would later receive the Medal of Honor for their bravery.
For the record, I never heard of, or saw ANY Dustoff (MedEvac) refuse to perform a mission in Vietnam, no matter how dangerous. Their bravery would shame most men who think they are bad. I personally saw Dustoffs take fire, crash and burn, but then have their wingman jump in and pick-up where they left off and be on short final to the LZ almost before they had hit the ground. I have the deepest respect for the job they did/do. |
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Here's Wiki's list of Medal of Honor recipients. ETA: I just found a Canadian that was a recipient from the Vietnam War. His story is here. I had the honor of working for Col. W.L. Fox |