Ed Freeman, Medal of Honor Winner

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 MediVac 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 and you look up to see an unarmed 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 doc tors 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 on Wednesday, June 25th, 2009, at the age of 80, in Boise , ID.   May God rest his soul.

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Thanks and a tip o’the hat to Terry  ‘Way Down in Alabama’ for sending this in. ~blm

Hi Barry – my brother always introduces me to good music and amazing movies.  In case you haven’t seen it, I wanted to recommend “The Cats of Mirikitani.”  It’s an amazing documentary about a Japanese artist who was found living on the streets in New York.  I think you’ll love it.    Sweet, sweet man who knows who he is in spite of a lot of sadness and tragedy.  It’s not a downer.  It’s a great reflection of the human Spirit.

That’s my movie review!
Gayle
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