You're a 19 year old kid.

You're critically wounded and dying in
The 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 that
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 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 heard a whole bunch about Lindsay Lohan, Dr.
Murray, that sicko Sandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.
Shame on the media !!!

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Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman


Now... YOU pass this along. Honor this real hero.

True story, but he died in 2008.

From Wikipedia:

Freeman died on August 20, 2008 due to complications from Parkinson's disease.[2] He was buried with full military honors at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise.[4]

In the 2002 film We Were Soldiers, which depicted the Battle of Ia Drang, Freeman was portrayed by Mark McCracken.[2] The post office in Freeman's hometown of McLain, Mississippi, was renamed the "Major Ed W. Freeman Post Office" in March 2009.[4]

Thanks for the update, I had received this in an email, but it is good to learn the rest of the story.

Bruce "Snake" Crandall was part of that deal and also a received the Medal of Honor. Great men.

He sounds like he was a truly amazing man. Thanks.