Time to Honor What Really Matters

This was forwarded to me by an old friend.

Courage

LZ X-Ray, somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. It's November 11, 1967.

You're a  19 year old kid. You're critically wounded and dying in the jungle. Your unit is outnumbered 8-1 and the enemy fire is so intense from 100 yards away that your CO 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 keeps coming back- 13 more times Until all the wounded are out. No one knows until his mission was over that Captain Ed Freeman has 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 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.