Ed Freeman

louixo

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
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 told a whole

Bunch about some Hip-Hop coward

beating up his "girlfriend"

Shame on the American Media
 

LDB

Veteran Expediter
Retired Expediter
The "media" are too busy feeding the Trolls with their anti-Constitution, anti-American, treasonous abuse of law abiding citizens as well as their agenda to force socialism on us all. What do they care about reporting? There are no reporters anymore. There are no journalists anymore. There are only :censoredsign:s of the liberal left, worthless and useless trash that should be piled on the rubbish heap and forever forgotten and ignored.
 

mjolnir131

Veteran Expediter
The "media" are too busy feeding the Trolls with their anti-Constitution, anti-American, treasonous abuse of law abiding citizens as well as their agenda to force socialism on us all. What do they care about reporting? There are no reporters anymore. There are no journalists anymore. There are only :censoredsign:s of the liberal left, worthless and useless trash that should be piled on the rubbish heap and forever forgotten and ignored.

Yes truly believe that 90% of the press could not do there jobs if they did not have C&P on their computer! actually that is probably a kind guess on my part.

Hail to Ed Freeman! a noble name for a noble man!
 
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baracade

Seasoned Expediter
I am glad you shared this info on Mr. Freeman, fortunately for me, I turned 18 in 1970 and was not drafted til 1971 which caused me to miss the worse of Vietnam. I did lose some friends there and am glad its over. I am glad to see the Iraq war vets are being treated a lot better than the Vietnam Vets! My son flew AWACS in the 90's but thank God he was out of harms way!
Wish we would see more reporting on the brave soldiers that fought that horribile war in Vietnam!
 

copdsux

Veteran Expediter
Charter Member
I did a Google search for Ed Freeman, MOH(Medal of Honor) and it returned over 30,000 results! Thirty Thousand! Someone was paying attention when Mr. Freeman passed away on August 21, 2008, not four days ago.

One of the results was a video piece, done by Brian Williams, on the NBC Nightly News. It paid homage to his service and heroics, as well as his nickname of Too Tall(6'4"). So, it appears that not everyone is doing their homework, before rushing off to the keyboard to point out how biased the MSM is.


Mike
 

cheri1122

Veteran Expediter
Driver
It really bugs me to see all the honors (like roads named after them) heaped upon politicians, who rarely deserve 1/10th of what they get, and nary a one for the REAL heroes among us - those who take great risks to be of help to their fellow man.
Guys like Ed Freeman.

 
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