Question by teri: Has anyone heard if they gave tribute to this war HERO?
Subject: FW: Ed Freeman – RIP
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:39:47 -0400
The definition of “hero” = Ed Freeman.
Ed Freeman, RIP
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,b and the enemy fire is so intense, from 100 or 200 yards away, that your own InfantryCommander 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 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 lives .and took about 30 of you and your buddies out, Who would never have gotten out. Medal of Honor Recipient, Ed Freeman, died Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at the age of 80, in Boise, ID.May God rest his soul.
Medal Of Honor Winner Ed Freeman!
Since the media didn’t give him the coverage he deserves send this to every red blooded American you know.
THANKS AGAIN ED FOR WHAT YOU DID FOR OUR COUNTRY.
RIP
Best answer:
Answer by Vet’s Daughter
Ed Freeman died in Aug. of 2008. You might want to check the validity of those email chain letters that you get before posting them.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/freeman.asp
What do you think? Answer below!
There were a lot of Ed Freeman’s in Nam’ They continue to go into obscurity for the likes of a Child molester like Micheal Jackson.The funeral for Colonel Ed mcMahon was attended by a Marine Corps color guard,his family and the American Legion.Not one TV Camera was present.
That is true, except for his date of death (actual date 8/20/2008). Actually it was TWENTY ONE times he went back.
Here’s the REST OF THE STORY:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/e/ed-freeman.htm
But you seldom hear of people like him, just perverts and weirdos like MJ make the news big time.