Courage
 

Courage.

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 one 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 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 seen
a whole bunch about Tiger Woods.

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Shame on the American media !!!

Yeah, heroism doesn't fit the profile of what the media (and the government that pulls their strings) wants out of their subjects. It's dangerous for them.....

May he rest in peace...

Oh to have known the people who we were never honored enough, in our lives, to have known.. RIP and thank you

That is a true hero....read "Lone Survivor" by Markus Latrele...the modern day equivalent, and you have the Obama administration going after our heros to prosecute them for "treating a Taliban terrorist roughly" Puched one in the stomache is the claim.....Todays socialists have no idea what our past AND present soldiers have gone through and sacrificed for the freedom they seem so determined to throw away today.

"We were soldiers.." was required reading at the academy and during my junior year COL (Ret.) Moore came to give a speech about the battle of LZ X-ray and the lost platoon. I got the opportunity to shake his hand.

One true American hero as well as all the men of the 7th Cav.