It's true.
Ed Freeman
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,
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
I bet you didn't hear about this hero's passing, but we sure were told a whole bunch about some Hip-Hop rap singer coward beating the crap out of his "girlfriend".
Shame on the American Media!
Blogger's Note: This account it true; however, Ed Freeman passed away in August of 2008. We surely could use more American heroes like Ed!
73 de Larry W2LJ
He was a real Hero - if you want to read the story of LZ X-ray, and the rest of the battle, get yourself a copy of "We were soldiers once... and young"
ReplyDeleteThe photo on the cover is Rick Rescorla, who was Morgan Stanley's security director on 9/11 - was killed when the towers came down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang