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A Real 19 Year Old Hero. - Deutschmark - 02.06.2012

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 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 heard a whole bunch about Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sickoSandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.

Shame on the media !!!

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman a real hero.


Deutschmark

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Re: A Real 19 Year Old Hero. - Fireskull - 02.06.2012

Yeah...


In an age when the word hero is overused and cheapened, here is a real hero. Yes, God rest his soul.



Fireskull

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Re: A Real 19 Year Old Hero. - Jambo - 04.06.2012

Rest in Peace Capt.

As an American (I'm not) I would be proud and ashamed at the same time.
Proud that there was – and will be, in my heart - an example of an human being
for whom the word “serving” isn't about money, nor power, nor influence, nor lobbyism -
but to risk how many times, the most valuable item a human being can give only once – his live.
Ashamed I didn't know this man at all....

As a German (I am) we don't know what it is or what it mean to be proud of a man like Captain Ed Freeman.
Because of our history – I can't be proud, only ashamed.
Even though I do know we have one or two heros today, unknown to me like the Capt. but very much
worthwhile to look out for them and to try to act like one.

God speed Capt.

S!

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Re: A Real 19 Year Old Hero. - LeBigTed - 04.06.2012

Yes Mates you've already said all.

What more ? Thanks for sharing DM, as I prefer to read this better that to know Mr. and Mrs. "I-know-the-name-but-in-2-years-everybody-will-have-forgotten" get married, divorced... Thanks the media which prefer to speak about no interesting matters...

Ted

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