Re: Fwd: Courage

[dick thompson]

It is true.  I have seen more on him and my military historian friend 
verified that this is true as well.  And he really was a hero in every 
sense of the word.   Thanks for passing this one on.

Keith In Tampa wrote:
I don't usually forward messages like this, and I haven't checked the 
veracity of the message, but for some reason, this one moved me:
 
Keith
 
 


    *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. 
     
    *
    I bet you didn't hear about this
    hero's* *passing,  but we've sure seen
    a whole bunch* *about Michael
    Jackson and Tiger Woods.*


    *
    Medal of  Honor
    Winner Captain Ed Freeman*
     


    *
    Shame on the American media !!!*
     
    *
    Now ... YOU pass this along to YOUR
    mailing list.  Honor this real American.*  
    *
    Please.*

     

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