A REAL HERO

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. ​

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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 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. ​

s 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. ​

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Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. ​

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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. ​

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Even after the MedEvacs were ordered not to come. He's coming anyway.​

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And he drops it in and sits there in the machine gun fire, as they load 3 of you at a time on board. ​

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Then he flies you up and out through the gunfire to the doctors and nurses and safety. ​

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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. ​

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Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Air Force, died in 2008, 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 heard a whole bunchabout Whitney Houston, Lindsay Lohan, Dr. Murray, that sickoSandusky, and a 72- day sham marriage.​

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Shame on the media !!!​

Medal of Honor Winner Captain Ed Freeman​

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Now.. YOU pass this along.​

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Honor this real hero. ​

Please.​

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Thanx for keeping true valor, real and truthful. It's a shame that such deeds are often hidden under the guise of (secret mission), (covert op.), (your eyes and ears only), (Going it alone), (Cover up) and the famous redundent Military phrase.........."Got a detail for yah".....where in most cases there are no details. // Congratulations on the Medal award to Captain E. Freeman. Salutes accordingly

 

Uh he died almost 4 years ago.

The story has many variations, I even believe there was a news special dedicated to him when he passed.

 

I was corrected he died in 2008 but the story is true and the point is we get all the garbage news and the important stuff gets filed away in the "hes not as interesting as a movie star file"

 

There's a couple inaccuracies with the story, besides date of death, he retired from the Army as a Major, so it should read, Major Ed Freeman, US Army Ret.. In the movie 'We Were Soldiers Once' the portrayal of the helicopter pilot shows the actions for which he received the Medal of Honor.

 

Its true we rarely get to hear of these heroic acts of bravery due to secret missions and black ops etc..There are even stories of unselfish acts of bravery still being uncovered today from the second world war !.
Interesting and fascinating as they are, its still impossible to imagine what these brave souls went through. Respect to our forces old and new.

 

sigh...

the truth is.... the truth is that nobody actually wants to know. We all act politely, nod our heads sagely and make the appropriate oohs and aahs but we don't actually want to know.

It's not that we don't acknowledge the service, or the danger, or the heroism. We're just not interested. This is the proper way to deal with this. Combat Ops are shitty business and nobody who's been involved in them wants to be reminded of how they actually run.

I get the angst about how we're "obsessed" with people like the Kardashians et al, but in truth we're not that interested in them either.

 

I'm retired from the Army Reserve and spent 8 yrs on active duty, I've met a few real heros, based on their awards. To a man, they felt the were ordinary people, placed in an extrodinary situations, who did the best they could. We all like to believe that we could perform similarly, if placed in the same situation, but no rational person wants to be in such a situation. The stakes in these situations are such that, there are no practice runs, you do or you don't, and no one can be sure in advance.

 

Interesting, ive just finished reading Karl Marlantes 'what it is like to go to war' and 'war' by Sebastian Junger (afghanistan - related doco, Restrepo) Ive been reading an enormous amount of books on war, esp Afghanistan, and am finding it an incredibly interesting subject, particularly concepts of heroism and what drives men to go to war, how they cope with it during and after. Reading a lot on the political backdrop too ... but thats a whole other can of worms.
I guess as a society we dont really want to know what goes on in wars or to accept easily those who have been there and done that, but as a society we ask our young men to go and kill people at our behest ... pretty hypocritical really.
Maybe thats why we get tied up in Lady Gaga crapping in a hat onstage, Gordon Ramsays dwarf porn double and other pointless buffoonery. Now if Lady Gaga crapped in Gordon Ramsays porn doubles hat while he was wearing it onstage, all bets are off. Im putting down my books and buying the editors cut dvd, the t shirt and signing the petition to bring 'Agog for Gaga's complicated movement' the stage show to a capital city near me.

 

I may have made up the bit about Lady G and the 'hat incident'

 

If lady G does that I think I'll go to war

 

Most of her songs sound like a crap in a hat !!.

 

Crapparazzi is proably jer high point