Posted on 11/14/2024 9:31:45 AM PST by anonsquared
By the time Ed W. Freeman was deployed to Vietnam in 1965, he was already an experienced helicopter pilot and was appointed second-in-command of a unit of 16 helicopters. He served as a captain in Company A, 229th Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile).
Captain Freeman’s bravery on November 14, 1965, distinguished him with numerous acts of conspicuous gallantry.
(Excerpt) Read more at ghostsofthebattlefield.org ...
You’re a 19 year old kid.
You are critically wounded and dying in the jungle somewhere in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam.
It is November 14, 1965 . 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 Winner Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army November 20, 1927 – August 20, 2008
"Fight, fight, fight!" - President Donald J. Trump
Too Tall!!! Bravo Zulu
Hooyah Too Tall!
God, what a hero! Surely this man is reaping his rewards in Heaven!
Rick Rescorla, a Cornishman veteran of Ia Drang, later shepherded hundreds of World Trade Center employees to safety on 9/11. Tragically, while combining the building for stragglers, he was caught up in its subsequent collapse. His body was never found.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla
His exploits, along with others’, are memorialized in a book written by Hal Moore, the American commander during that five day clash. Rescorla’s photo is on the cover of “We were soldiers once ,,, and young”.
Today we have kids who need a safe space after an election and who get triggered by words. Man, how have we fallen so far?
You don't "win" the Medal of Honor.
Thank you for sharing that story.
I stand corrected: “Medal of Honor Recipient.”
Also every time he went back, he brought ammo and supplies to those pinned down not just to evacuate the wounded. He saved many more lives that day than those he evacuated.
Someone once said a soldier’s actions can result either in the MoH or a court martial. Thank god for such men.
With that, I also thank the Lord for giving us veterans another chance with Donald John Trump (who in truth has also been deliberately shot at) once again as the 47th Chief Officer to become like those--George Washington, and Andrew Jackson, and William Henry Harrison, and Ulysses S. Grant, and Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower--who have served as Chief, preserving America's Greatness of heart and Spirit!
May God give our next president and his Marine Veteran Vice President the courage of Capt. Ed W. Freeman to carry on their physically dangerous commission to restore the freedom of citizens from the servants of Satan who have up to now tried to capture and eliminate the precious freedoms enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and Constitutional plans of our Founders.
Let the "wokeness" and its teachers be wiped from our schools and colleges, replaced by reverence for our Maker and His coming Kingdom of righteousness and peace.
Twasn’t you - it was in the article itself. No worries! :)
Amen!
His will be done on earth as it is in Heaven!
Douglas MacArthur was another hero, receivimg the Japanese surrender on the great battleship Missouri, also overseeing our forces in the Korean conflict unti; Harry Truman dismissed him. Douglas's last words, well remembered were, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away." Those words found their way into a briefly popular song of the day. I remember the tune, to this day.
None finer than those WWI veterans who led our troops in WWII as well as restoring the peaceful resolution of the mess afterwards. George Marshall helped the suffering defeated opponents survive the war, and come back as economically productive democratic republics; while Russia turned their holding into oppressive country-wide penitentiaries of poverty, fear, and death.
No one since has ever surpassed the greatness of our country as it led the non-socialistic world while still vilely opposed by the nasty Stalin/Kruschev and Mao Commierat .
I have watched it all, and even filled out my small share of national service honorably in it, for which I have the certificate that was issued just before Vietnam blossomed as an immoral drug-laden sewer into which our youths were sent, academically rejected, and philosophically ruined.
May Trump and his affiliates bring back just a snatch of that reality of greatness that our parents and grandparents brought into being, that people of my age only have experienced, greater than any dominion ever before in all history.
We of that pre-"boom" generation have seen it all, and now will soon have passed away either into Glory or more Hell.
The years from 1940 to 1960 was just a taste that the world of time has yet to suffer deeply, then for a brief moment greatly rejoice in, that will come when the Prince of Peace sets up His irresistible Government of Righteousness over this globe of wretched, lost, depraved souls in which Satan and his devices will have been removed for a thousand years, and sinful behavior not tolerated at all.
May your prayer be effected soon, my FRiend.
Dear Sir
You have my deepest respect. I look forward to shaking your hand when we meet in that perfect realm. I can never truly grasp how you must feel when you see what has become of this world, especially in the light of your service to your great nation.
As a fellow soldier of Christ, I salute you.
God bless you
and God bless America
Anzacs unsurpassed. Our Marines trained by them to conquer Jap-infested Pacific islands.
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