Michael Jackson dies and it’s 24/7 news coverage. A real American hero dies and not a mention of it in the news. The media has no honor and God is watching!


In Honor of Ed Freeman

You're a 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 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 that sound of a helicopter and 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, 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 on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID. May God rest his soul.



Medal of Honor Winner
Ed Freeman!
Since the media didn't give him the coverage he deserves, send this to every red-blooded American you know.

THANKS AGAIN, ED, FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.
RIP

 

A true hero!

 

i got that email. sad a "superstar" death is more important than a man like this

to Ed!

 

Now that deserves respect and a medal for sure, a big thanks to him for helping the country when in need. Going above and beyond the call of duty is rare these days.

 

Here's another similar one from WWII that I just read...
RIP "Shifty" Powers
good read...

http://www.musclecar-evolution.com/f...ad.php?t=12966

 

RIP Ed.
I only wish everyone could be as unselfish as this man.

However the person that created that email is a complete idiot. While a man like this deserves far more praise than Michael Jackson. Ed "Too Tall" Freeman died August 20, 2008.
When I was reading the story I remembered the scene from "We Were Soldiers" and decided to check on it.

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

 

I was thinking that as I was reading the e-mail that I posted...I thought I remembered reading about him in the paper several months back...might have been on the anniversary of D-Day or sumpin'...

I should've listed a disclaimer...LoL

 

He was portrayed by Mark McCracken in We Were Soldiers. That's what made me remember.
Great way to be remembered.

 

A ture american hero and a great American