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True Hero: Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army Pilot

Doc

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You're a 19 year old kid. You are 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 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 Army Pilot, died at the age of 80, 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 the thug Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, The gov. shut down, "what difference does it make!!!?" and the bickering of congress over Health & OBAMA CARE! BUT ZIP ABOUT THE PASSING OF
Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman.
Shame on the media !!!
Now... YOU pass this along.
Honor this real hero.


All true but this has been politicized. Hero Capt. Ed Freeman passed away Aug 20th 2008. Way before the incidents mentioned in the article, but the point is the media still should have at least covered this hero's passing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/ed-freeman.htm#.VN95Oy5aipo

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp
 

Kane

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It starts with the president of the United States.

And it is becoming oh so obvious to anyone (anyone not suffering from denial) that this president favors blacks, and especially black Muslims, over the rest of America. The honorable Captain Freeman, bless his soul, and folks like him shouldn't expect too much from this administration and the media. It is becoming clear as a bell, and it taints everything Barack Hoossein Obama will do over the next two years.

It wouldn't be too bad if it didn't affect the man's outlook on foriegn policy. But his affection for Muslims over the interests of America is putting our homeland in unnecessary danger. And it will take a major terrorist strike against the homeland before ALL the People wise up and demand that Hoossein start acting like the president of the United States.

Because right now, it's really hard to tell which side he is on.
 

bczoom

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Doc - Not sure of the source of the excerpt you've posted above.

I believe he was the wingman for Bruce Crandall in the Vietnam Battle of La Drang

Both received the MOH for what they did on that day.

If you want to see how that day went, watch the movie "We Were Soldiers". I just happened to watch it the other day for probably the 10th time. Just incredible how that battle went.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_P._Crandall
 
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