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
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.


god bless our troops and thank yall for serving! hopefully i will be able to serve this great country and do my part like this man and many more have... thank you guys you mean the world to me

 

thats as good as ive heard in a while thanks wisconsin redneck

 

oops i was wondering why it was so long... i copy and pasted it twice from my email.. hahha but yeh no prob.... i just hate how alot of americans take everything we have for granted... like at my school half the kids dont even stand up for the pledge.... i usually say somethin to the affect of... stand up and show some respect for our country jackass.... usually works... lmao

 

thank you for a wonderful story

 

Thanks for the great story

 

AMEN Brother, May He Rest In Peace.

 

Awesome story. That's one of the best I've ever heard, that really is amazing.

But I hate to break it to you, he died in August 2008...

 

thats alright never have heard that before so its good anyway

 

oops well i just got it in my inbox from my older brother a few days ago..... oh well