Another one gone

[lchas1950]

Don't know if this has been posted or when it actually was written:

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 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 told a whole
bunch about some Hip-Hop Coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend"

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[Jim Tarleton]

The man had guts. I think his wingman also got the MOH, but Ed got his about 20 years after the action.

Never saw it in the papers or the news broadcasts. Military heroes are not the first choice of broadcasters.

Jim

[duggaboy]

OK, I know about this guym my older brother flew there and related this to me, and I am saddened. Nam was the ****s

[John Rippert]

Rest in Peace, Ed.

God Bless.

[rollins74]

I did, in fact, hear about the passing of this great man, thanks to Joseph Galloway, who was there with them in the Ia Drang Valley and wrote the book "We Were Soldiers Once... And Young" with Hal Moore. As a columnist, Mr. Galloway is a great friend of our military and ensures that we Americans know about heros like Ed "Too Tall" Freeman and his friend and fellow Medal of Honor recipient, Bruce "Ol' Snake (Ancient Serpent)" Crandall. Watch for Mr. Galloway's column in your local newspaper or read it online at: McClatchy | Joe Galloway

[Hardcase]

Most people here in Boise, Idaho didn't even know that a hero like Ed Freeman was walking amongst them. He occasionally talked to schools, but that was about it. I knew he lived here because the appendix of LtGen Moore's book had some brief biographical information on the soldiers he served with.

The movie was wonderful, the book was terrific, but somehow I don't think that either could truly capture the sheer guts that Ed Freeman had in flying an unarmed UH-1 through such withering fire.

I always toyed with the idea of trying to get hold of him, just to thank him for his service. I was sad when I heard of his passing last year and I guess I'll just have to say it in a prayer.