Another great American has passed.
Freeman You'rea 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in theIaDrang Valley. November 11, 1965. LZ X-ray , 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 tostop coming in. You're lying there, listening to the enemy machine guns and you knowyou're not getting out. Your family is 1/2 way around the world, 12,000 miles away, and you'llnever 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 ahelicopter. You look up to see an unarmed Huey. But ... it doesn't seem realbecause 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 downinto the machine gun fire anyway. Even 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 load2 or 3 of you on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors andnurses. And, he kept coming back!! 13 more times!! He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never havegotten out. Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise ,Idaho . May God 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. . . Medal of Honor Winner Ed Freeman Shame on the American media !!! Now ... YOU pass this along on YOUR mailing list. Please.