"Drifter" wrote in message
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Just passing this on. from alt.war.Vietnam,

Ed Freeman, Metal of Honor Recipient.

Drifter...



You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang 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 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.

You look up to see an unarmed 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 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 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!!

He 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 , 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 Tiger Woods. . .



Medal of Honor Winner

Ed Freeman

Shame on the American media !!!

You should copy rec.aviation.military
may he RIP

bmc

Brian Colwell wrote:


Shame on the American media !!!

You should copy rec.aviation.military
may he RIP

bmc

The people don't want to hear any more war stories.

"dave" wrote in message
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Brian Colwell wrote:


Shame on the American media !!!

You should copy rec.aviation.military
may he RIP

bmc

The people don't want to hear any more war stories.



Wow... people are so gullible...

Freeman died in 2008 yet every time an African American is in the news this
sham story somehow circulates with a different ending to suit the day's .
Freeman received the Medal of Honor in 2001.

IMO... the real disrespect of the man is in the twisting of his story to
attack a race and to advance a political agenda.

He was a brave man... the people who lie about him to serve their own
purposes are cowards.


http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp

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