Heroes
I recently received this on my e-mail and thought I would pass most of it on here in my blog.
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-You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. It's November 11, 1967. 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 will 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. There is no MedEvac markings on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not a 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 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 recently at the age of 70.
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We so often do not hear of our heroes. Our courageous men and women.
We do hear about the bickering in the political machine, and about the shootings,
and how there are just so many bad things going on. What about those that do
this type of job daily? For recognition? For fame? For what?
Because they are called to, To do something for the benefits of others. To go
beyond what most of us would even consider.
I want to thank them for this.
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-You're a 19 year old kid. You're critically wounded, dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. It's November 11, 1967. 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 will 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. There is no MedEvac markings on it.
Captain Ed Freeman is coming in for you. He's not a 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 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 recently at the age of 70.
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We so often do not hear of our heroes. Our courageous men and women.
We do hear about the bickering in the political machine, and about the shootings,
and how there are just so many bad things going on. What about those that do
this type of job daily? For recognition? For fame? For what?
Because they are called to, To do something for the benefits of others. To go
beyond what most of us would even consider.
I want to thank them for this.
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