USAF 65/88.....Best years of my life.
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You should read this and then pass it along. In early 1966, during the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam, Freeman distinguished himself in the manner described below. Col. Hal Moore commanded the 7th Air Mobile Cavalry. Basil Plumley was the Sgt. Major. The movie "We Were Soldiers Once" tells their story, There is also a book by the same name. Freeman was too young to die at 70!!Honored to pass this along. Subject: FW: THE CAPTAIN AND HIS HUIE Reminicent of my cousin, Bruce Gibbons, who did a similar rescue mission in Nam for which he received the Distinguished Flying Cross. You're a 19 year old kid. You are critically wounded and dying inthe jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. It's November 11, 1967.LZ (landing zone) X-ray. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away, that your CO (commanding officer) has ordered the MedEvac 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 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 machine gun noise - you faintly hear the sound of a helicopter. You look up to see a Huey coming in. But.. It doesn't seem real because no MedEvac markings are on it. Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not MedEvac so it's not his job, but he heard the radio call and decided he's flying his Huey down into the machine gun fire anyway.Even after the MedEvacs 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 3 of you at a time on board. Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. And, he kept coming back !! 13 more times!! Until all the wounded were out. No one knew until the mission was over that the Captain had been hit 4 times in the legs and left arm. He took 29 of you and your buddies out that day. Some would not have made it without the Captain and his Huey. Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died last Wednesday 9-30-15 at the age of 70, in Boise, Idaho. May God Bless and Rest His Soul. I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we've sure seen a whole bunchabout the thug Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and the bickering of congress over Health & OBAMA CARE! BUT ZIP ABOUT THE PASSING OF Medal of Honor RECIPIENT Captain Ed Freeman Shame on the ALL media !!!
Don't you feel humbled reading this ?
That was the time period I did 2 tours there in aviation.
I have wondered where these kind of people come from.
The Great Ones we have lived with looked like the rest of us
and the next day they are like Angels to us forever.
God Speed Brother
I was a C-130 crew chief from 1972-1977, they are one fine bird.Some lumber over house every now and then. Did they discover what made that one crash yet? Maybe it was just going too slow.![]()
That is a good thing to believe, too sad for those that don't share our beliefs.Someone is always there watching over us, at least that's what I believe.
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