Medal of Honor Recipient Chopper Pilot, Ed Freeman ....... RIP

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By: samD Posted: September 28, 2008

Medal of Honor Recipient Chopper Pilot, Ed Freeman ....... RIP

Ed Freeman

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 mortars, 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 noise of all hell, 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 torrent of 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 and intense mortar
fire, and loads 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 Wednesday at the age of 80, in
Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul.....
May we never forget those that love America so much and make America so
beloved.

God Bless
Semper Fi