Not sure this belongs here ...
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 Medi-Vac 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..!!
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 anyway. Even 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..!!
He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.

Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died Wednesday August 20 2008 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've sure seen a whole bunch about some freakish white-gloved singer passing..!!


Shame on the American Media..!!

 

Probably does not belong here in the "Touring Models" section. But thanks, good read. I hadn't heard of Ed Freeman.

 

met him many times. went to his funeral and hearing about his exploits was something else. he was truly a hero that we all could learn something from.

 

God Bless Ed Freeman and all who answer the call like him. Your right, the media's priorities sure are fugged up, along with a whole lotta people.

 

A hero indeed.......

 

God bless Him ...... A real Hero

 

I agree but thought that a lot of touring members would appreciate the post. Being fairly new I sometime struggle with certain posts, This one was no struggle

 

What a MAN!!

 

That's a hero in my book...never heard thet story but thanks for posting. The post belongs anywhere and everywhere...RIP Ed.

 

Amen Brother!
RIP Ed Freeman.
Never knew him or heard of him - but hero's like him are out there doing what they do every day, and we rarely hear of them.
SAD!
Thanks for the post.