Maggie’s Medal of Honor Recipient , Ed Freeman , died today

[Spartan67]

You're an 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded , and dying in the jungle in the Ia Drang Valley , 11-14-1965, 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, and you look up to see an un-armed 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 at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul..... I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing.

 

[timesublime]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

That's one brave man.

But he has been dead for a while.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Yup... old news.

But here is some other old news. August 21, 2008. The day after this hero left us. These were the headlines:

Tesla Roadster announced and costs just $172,000
Woman give birth to her own grandson using frozen eggs
Jennifer Aniston has new Beau
Plane crashes in Spain
Michael Phelps bought 1.7 million dollar Condo in Baltimore. Seaside, no less.
Ohio Congressman Stephanie Tubbs Jones (first black woman congresswoman) dies.
UN official warns of Neo-Colonial Food System.
And (can't make this up) Batchlorette rejects Jason Mesnick, single father from Seattle.


Doesn't matter how old it is. This guy is a hero among heros. Did his nation notice? No. They focused on The Batchlorette and a stupid $200K electric roadster that only Justin Bieber and George Clooney will ever own.

Thanks Mbielec for posting. May be late... but hopefully the many patriots here on SH will give him the honors and recognition that he deserved (but was denied due to the more-important developments on Reality TV).... Better late than never.

RIP hero.

In greatest respect... Sirhr

 

[Spartan67]

Sorry guys. I thought this was a current passing. But it dosent take away from the respect he deserves.

 

[RAF2]

Too bad he did not get the video game award that just came out.... You know the one higher than the P.H. and Bronze star...

 

[neeley205]

Did you know this guy did all of this AFTER surviving WWII AND Korea?

"Beyond his service in the Navy in World War II, he reached the Army rank of first sergeant by the time of the Korean War. Although he was in the Corps of Engineers, he fought as an infantry soldier in Korea. He participated in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and earned a battlefield commission as one of only 14 survivors out of 257 men who made it through the opening stages of the battle. His second lieutenant bars were pinned on by General James Van Fleet personally. He then assumed command of B Company and led them back up Pork Chop Hill."

 

[rugger1330]

Great Man!