Our Fall’in Hero

Our Fall’in Hero

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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
you’re CO (commanding officer) has ordered the Med-Evac 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 Med-Evac markings are on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you.
He’s not Med-Evac 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 Med-Evacs 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.