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Courage.
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.
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 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 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 last Wednesday at the age of 70,
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 seen a whole bunch about
Michael Jackson, Tiger Woods
and the bickering of congress
over Health Reform.
RON PAUL statesman and patriot