Read this guys.

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 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 MedEvac's 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 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 last Wednesday 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 heard a whole bunch about Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sicko Sandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.


Shame on the media!!!

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman

Now thats a TRUE HERO!

He was a hero, No doubt about it.

I guess we know what's "REALLY" important in todays world.
most people would rather read or hear about octomom, than a man of honor.

We didn't hear about it because Ed Freeman died Aug 2008

Major Ed W. Freeman (U.S. Army, Retired) Medal of Honor Recipient Major Ed W. Freeman (U.S. Army, Retired), passed away on Aug. 20, 2008 at St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho, due to complications from Parkinson's Disease. He was 80 years old. Ed was born on Nov. 20, 1927 to William Ed and Caroline Freeman in Neely, Miss.; the sixth of nine children. He married Barbara Morgan on April 30, 1954. Ed and Barbara had two sons, Mike, born in 1956 and Doug, born in 1962. At age 17, Ed enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served on the USS Cacapon for two years. Upon return to Neely, Ed graduated from high school and then enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was a Master Sergeant in the Army Corps of Engineers, but he fought in Korea as an infantryman. He took part in the Battle of Pork Chop Hill and was awarded a Battlefield Commission, which enabled him the opportunity to apply to flight school. However, standing at 6'4", the 6'2" height restriction prevented him from being eligible, earning him the nickname "Too Tall." In 1955, the Army regulations changed, thus allowing Ed to attend flight school. He earned his wings at Ft. Rucker, Alabama. Ed began flying fixed-wing aircraft, then switched to helicopters. After logging thousands of hours in choppers, Ed was sent to Vietnam in 1965, assigned to the 1st Calvary Division (Airmobile). He was second in command of a sixteen-helicopter unit responsible for carrying infantrymen into battle. On Nov. 14, 1965, Ed's helicopters carried a battalion into the Ia Drang Valley for what became the first major confrontation between large forces of the American and North Vietnamese armies. Back at base, Ed and the other pilots received word that the soldiers they had dropped off were taking heavy casualties and running low on supplies. In fact, the fighting was so fierce that Medevac helicopters refused to pick up the wounded. When the commander of the helicopter unit asked for volunteers to fly into the battle zone, Freeman alone stepped forward. He was joined by his commander, and the two of them began several hours of flights into the contested area. Because their small emergency-landing zone was just one hundred yards away from the heaviest fighting, their unarmed and lightly armored helicopters took several hits. In all, Freeman carried out fourteen separate rescue missions, bringing in water and ammunition to the besieged soldiers and taking back dozens of wounded, some of whom wouldn't have survived if they hadn't been evacuated. For these actions, Ed was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor on July 16, 2001, by President George W. Bush. Freeman left Vietnam in 1966 and retired from the Army the following year. He flew helicopters another 20 years for the Department of the Interior, herding wild horses, fighting fires, and performing animal census. Then he retired altogether, deciding to spend time with his family. Ed is survived by his wife of 54 years, Barbara Freeman, his sons Mike (Anita) Freeman and Doug (Tina) Freeman, four grandchildren, Cori (Brad) Dalton, Scott Freeman, Haylee Freeman, all residing in Boise and Joshua Freeman of San Diego, Calif., three great-grandsons, Cooper and Bronco Dalton, and Trace Freeman, of Boise, as well as his sister, Betty Waters of Warner-Robbins, Ga. and brother Charles Freeman of Mobile, Ala. Ed was preceded in death by his parents, Caroline and William Ed Freeman, his brothers Pete, Joe, Loren and sisters Miriam, Louise, and Marcella. Ed's life will be celebrated on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008 at 11 a.m. at Capital Christian Center, 2760 E. Fairview, Meridian, Idaho. A committal service with full military honors will follow at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery. Services are under the arrangement of Alden-Waggoner Funeral Chapel. The family wishes to thank the wonderful staff at St. Alphonsus, Idaho Veteran's Service organizations and the Idaho Army National Guard. Memorial contributions may be made to the National Parkinson's Foundation at 1501 NW 9th Ave. Miami, Fl 33136-1494, www.parkinsons.org or the National Veteran's Foundation, www.nationalveteransfoundation.org.
Published in Idaho Statesman on August 22, 2008

This was a true American Hero not one of the sudo heroes of the media.

brings a new meaning to the term " they dont make them like they use to" kills me knowing all the history that's packed away in these old timer's mind's most being forgotten all togeather when they pass away, rarely ever being remembered correctly. My grandfather was in the army and man some of the storys he tells, hes not as strong as he use to be but his mind is sharp as a razor. I love what these guy's did for us and i could only dream of being as brave as they were.

These days we seem to use the word "hero" much too lightly and apply it to almost anyone who does anything out of the ordinary. This guy is what I think the true definition of a hero ought to be--one who does something far beyond what almost anyone else would do in similar circumstances and at grave risk to his own life. Rest in peace, Major Freeman. You've done your duty and a lot of others' as well.

Great post

You mean you wouldn't rather hear about Whitney Houston for another 5 or 6 weeks? Now she was a hero.




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fender66 said:

You mean you wouldn't rather hear about Whitney Houston for another 5 or 6 weeks? Now she was a hero.




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Apparently the Governor of New Jersey, Christie, thinks so. He ordered the flags flown at half-staff for this washed-up, whacked out junkie. (Uh, does this violate the no-politics rule? Wasn't meant to be a political statement.)

I remember hearing about him a while back...Like others have said this was a true american hero.

wow, amazing