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A American Hero

>>> 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 1/2 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 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 anyway. Even 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 times..!!>>>> He took about 30 of you and your buddies out who would never have gotten out.>>>> >>>> Medal of Honor Recipient,>>>> Ed Freeman, died last Wednesday at the age of 80, in Boise , ID>>>> May God 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's passing..!!>>>> >>>> >>>> Medal of Honor Winner>>>> Ed Freeman!>>>> >>>> Shame on the American Media..!!

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