Another hero passes on............

[Dan Shapiro]

Let's just suppose 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 last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID ......May God rest his soul.....
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were kept up-to-date on some 19 year old Hip-Hop coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"

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[Bob Womack]

A sad passing. How wonderful that they were able to work the MOH through for him while he was alive. Rest easy, "Too Tall."

Bob

[mousegun]

Just watched "We Were Soldiers" on TV this weekend. Ed Freeman and his C.O. Major Bruce Crandall were in every measure the truest of heroes. Ed Freeman passed last August. He's interred at Idaho State Veteran's Cemetery in Boise.

He's in good company.

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[beachbumbob]

How to spot a helicopter pilot at the bar.

The one in his pristine white suit will be a Navy flier.
The one in a starched and pressed flight suit will be an Air Force Pilot.
The grungy one with a wheelbarrow to haul his "equipment" around is a helicopter pilot!

They ALL earned my respect and gratitude many times over!

Bob

[Papa G]

and all the heros of our military.