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We lost a true hero last week.
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md11flyer Sep 26 2008, 10:09 PM Post #1
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Not really political but many of you don't know that much about Vietnam. Ed Freeman was a legend to many of us. RIP Ed. If you would like to know more about the man, nice write up on Wikipedia.


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 1/2 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.....
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Edited by md11flyer, Sep 26 2008, 10:18 PM.
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boilergrad01 Sep 26 2008, 10:33 PM Post #2
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Sep 26 2008, 10:09 PM
Not really political but many of you don't know that much about Vietnam. Ed Freeman was a legend to many of us. RIP Ed. If you would like to know more about the man, nice write up on Wikipedia.


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 1/2 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.....
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Thank you for the post Flyer. RIP ED

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yawnzzz Sep 27 2008, 08:24 AM Post #3
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I've never heard of him before, but he definitely has my respect.
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mongo Sep 27 2008, 07:06 PM Post #4
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Wow what a badass. I actually think I've heard of him before, but wasn't sure of his name. RIP
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troubleatiu Sep 28 2008, 12:38 AM Post #5
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where is the saluting smiley? i take my beloved, ragged red sox hat off for him. better than that, ill ask a moment of silence here for him. God rest your soul.
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